[Numpy-discussion] (Late) summary of PEP-225 discussion at Scipy

[Fernando Perez]

Hey David,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:00 AM, David Warde-Farley <dwf at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> Hi Fernando,
>
> In Robert's comment, I think the reST processor somehow got rid of a
> backslash. In my browser I see
>
>        (I'm looking at you, Matlab's "")
>
> although this is an aside that will be lost on anyone who hasn't used
> the Matlab backslash operator anyway.

Oops, thanks.  Fixed now.

> In fact, one other thing just came to mind that isn't obvious and (so
> far as I can remember) hasn't been brought up: even though Robert and
> others (myself included) really only care about an operator to
> facilitate matrix multiplication, I think most of us would support the
> ~*=  (mentioned in the PEP) as a natural companion to ~*.

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Thanks.  I added your comment below Robert's, with attribution, and
pushed again (to launchpad and to the static page).

Thanks for the edits!

Cheers,

f