josef.pktd@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:30 PM, David Warde-Farley <dwf@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
On 2010-04-28, at 12:05 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote:
a(b) is equivalent to dot(a,b)
a(b)(c) would be equivalent to dot(dot(a,b),c)
This seems rather reasonable.
Indeed, and it leads to a rather pleasant way of permuting syntax to change the order of operations, i.e. a(b(c)) vs. a(b)(c).
I like the explicit dot method much better, __call__ (parentheses) can mean anything, and reading the code will be more difficult. (especially when switching from matlab)
Yes, you have a point, though I do think it would read easier as a method, a.dot(b.dot(c)) or a.dot(b).dot(c) rather than as a prefix/function. (Down the line, another concern is the fact that dot() always incurs a memory allocation for the result, which matters sometimes when you have a huge amount of data and limited RAM. As I currently understand the situation, it shouldn't be hard to add an optional 'out' argument or a gaxpy primitive that maps directly onto the BLAS call; I just haven't had time yet to investigate it further.) David David