Backport 14333ea to 1.10 (#580)

Author: gbaraldi

src/sparsevector.jl

@@ -1239,13 +1239,16 @@ function vcat(X1::_SparseConcatGroup, X::_SparseConcatGroup...)
     end
     return Base.typed_vcat(Base.promote_eltype(X1, X...), X1, X...)
 end
-function hvcat(rows::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, X1::_SparseConcatGroup, X::_SparseConcatGroup...)
+function hvcat_internal(rows::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, X1::_SparseConcatGroup, X::_SparseConcatGroup...)
     if anysparse(X1) || anysparse(X...)
         vcat(_hvcat_rows(rows, X1, X...)...)
     else
         Base.typed_hvcat(Base.promote_eltypeof(X1, X...), rows, X1, X...)
     end
 end
+function hvcat(rows::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, X1::_SparseConcatGroup, X::_SparseConcatGroup...)
+    return hvcat_internal(rows, X1, X...)
+end
 function _hvcat_rows((row1, rows...)::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, X::_SparseConcatGroup...)
     if row1 ≤ 0
         throw(ArgumentError("length of block row must be positive, got $row1"))
@@ -1266,9 +1269,8 @@ hcat(n1::Number, ns::Vararg{Number}) = invoke(hcat, Tuple{Vararg{Number}}, n1, n
 vcat(n1::Number, ns::Vararg{Number}) = invoke(vcat, Tuple{Vararg{Number}}, n1, ns...)
 hcat(n1::N, ns::Vararg{N}) where {N<:Number} = invoke(hcat, Tuple{Vararg{N}}, n1, ns...)
 vcat(n1::N, ns::Vararg{N}) where {N<:Number} = invoke(vcat, Tuple{Vararg{N}}, n1, ns...)
-hvcat(rows::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, n1::Number, ns::Vararg{Number}) = invoke(hvcat, Tuple{typeof(rows), Vararg{Number}}, rows, n1, ns...)
-hvcat(rows::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, n1::N, ns::Vararg{N}) where {N<:Number} = invoke(hvcat, Tuple{typeof(rows), Vararg{N}}, rows, n1, ns...)
-
+hvcat(rows::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, n1::Number, ns::Vararg{Number}) = hvcat_internal(rows, n1, ns...)
+hvcat(rows::Tuple{Vararg{Int}}, n1::N, ns::Vararg{N}) where {N<:Number} = hvcat_internal(rows, n1, ns...)
 
 # make sure UniformScaling objects are converted to sparse matrices for concatenation
 promote_to_array_type(A::Tuple{Vararg{Union{_SparseConcatGroup,UniformScaling}}}) = anysparse(A...) ? SparseMatrixCSC : Matrix