[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] default axes

[Konrad HINSEN]

> I really think dot(a,b) should behave _exactly_ like
> 
> add.reduce(a*b,axis=-1)

Why?

> Full rank multiplication of two arrays could be written:
> 
> dot(a[...,(n-1)*(NewAxis,)],b,axes=-n)

That is a lot too complicated for a frequent operation, especially
considering that n might not be available as a variable or constant,
i.e. it would have to be written as shape(b)[0].

Konrad.
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