SparseMatrixCSC constructor with a Tuple of Integers

[jishnub]

With this, the following works:

julia> similar(SparseMatrixCSC{Float64,Int}, 2,2)
2×2 SparseMatrixCSC{Float64, Int64} with 0 stored entries:
  ⋅    ⋅ 
  ⋅    ⋅ 

Previously, this used to call the SparseMatrixCSC constructor with a Tuple of Ints, which was not defined. Similar constructors are added for SparseVector.

This should probably be backported to v1.11 as well as v1.10. I added the backport 1.10 label, but there doesn't seem to be one for v1.11.

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[ViralBShah]

Merge?