diff --git a/src/SparseArrays.jl b/src/SparseArrays.jl
index 9c0bfd19..162a2559 100644
--- a/src/SparseArrays.jl
+++ b/src/SparseArrays.jl
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ export AbstractSparseArray, AbstractSparseMatrix, AbstractSparseVector,
     sprand, sprandn, spzeros, nnz, permute, findnz,  fkeep!, ftranspose!,
     sparse_hcat, sparse_vcat, sparse_hvcat
 
+public sparse!, spzeros!
+
 const LinAlgLeftQs = Union{HessenbergQ,QRCompactWYQ,QRPackedQ}
 
 # helper function needed in sparsematrix, sparsevector and higherorderfns