[Numpy-discussion] Deprecate boolean math operators?

Alexander Belopolsky ndarray at mac.com
Thu Dec 5 22:56:48 EST 2013


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian at sipsolutions.net>
wrote:
> there was a discussion that for numpy booleans math operators +,-,* (and
> the unary -), while defined, are not very helpful.

It has been suggested at the Github that there is an area where it is
useful to have linear algebra operations like matrix multiplication to be
defined over a semiring:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_matrix

This still does not justify having unary or binary -, so I suggest that we
first discuss deprecation of those.
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