[Python-ideas] Support multiplication for sets

[Jakob Bowyer]

As far as I know and from asking my lecturer, multiplication only
produces Cartesian products.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:35, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think an operator form is sufficiently valuable when the
> > functionality is available and clear enough already.
>
> I'm not sure; if set multiplication is highly unambiguous (i.e. the
> Cartesian product is the only logical outcome, and there is not some
> other common multiplication-like operation on sets), than it seems to
> me that supporting the multiplication operator for the Cartesian
> product of sets would be sensible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirkjan
>
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