[Python-Dev] Matrix product

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jul 30 03:43:16 CEST 2008


Fredrik Johansson wrote:

> Further, while A**B is not so common, A**n is quite common (for
> integral n, in the sense of repeated matrix multiplication). So a
> matrix multiplication operator really should come with a power
> operator cousin.

Which obviously should be @@ :-)

> Well, Fortress probably has some unicode symbol for it
> (I suppose that would be one desperate possibility).

I've been carefully refraining from suggesting that.
Although now that unicode is allowed in identifiers,
it's not *quite* as heretical as it used to be.

-- 
Greg


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