[Python-ideas] [RFC] draft PEP: Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> One thing that always comes up is a suggestion for using Unicode. There
> are obvious downsides--the Unicode multiplication character isn't easy to
> type; even if Python and major code editors are fully Unicode friendly,
> code often has to go through channels that may not be; etc. But it's worth
> asking whether the numeric community has considered this and rejected it
> for these reasons, or for other reasons, or if they'd be happy with it but
> just didn't think Python was ready for it, or whatever.


It did.  Some 60 years ago [1].  Mostly rejected by now [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
[2] http://www.jsoftware.com/start.htm
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