refactor: use scalar assign utility

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Author: kgryte

lib/node_modules/@stdlib/ndarray/base/fill/lib/main.js

@@ -21,11 +21,10 @@
 // MODULES //
 
 var isScalarMostlySafeCompatible = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/assert/is-scalar-mostly-safe-compatible' ); // eslint-disable-line id-length
-var broadcastScalar = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/broadcast-scalar' );
+var scalar2ndarray = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/from-scalar' );
 var getDType = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/dtype' );
-var getShape = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/shape' );
 var getOrder = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/order' );
-var assign = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/assign' );
+var assign = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/assign-scalar' );
 var format = require( '@stdlib/string/format' );
 
 
@@ -61,11 +60,11 @@ function fill( x, value ) {
 	if ( !isScalarMostlySafeCompatible( value, dt ) ) {
 		throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. The second argument cannot be safely cast to the input array data type. Data type: %s. Value: `%s`.', dt, value ) );
 	}
-	// Broadcast the fill value to an ndarray of same shape and data type as the input ndarray:
-	v = broadcastScalar( value, dt, getShape( x ), getOrder( x ) );
+	// Convert the fill value to an ndarray having the same data type as the input ndarray:
+	v = scalar2ndarray( value, dt, getOrder( x ) );
 
 	// Assign the fill value to each element of the input ndarray:
-	assign( [ v, x ] ); // TODO: consider replacing with ndarray/base/assign-scalar in order to avoid zero-dimensional ndarray creation and subsequent broadcasting
+	assign( [ v, x ] );
 
 	return x;
 }