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

[Masklinn]

On 2014-03-14, at 14:01 , Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> The reason @ is used for reply is because the menomic Is "at soandso". Probably if people can handle that they can handle it here too. 

People don't "handle" anything, they learn the semantics of the @ symbol
in-context, whatever name they give it. That does not mean
non-english-speakers associate it with the sound "at" (they don't, in
my experience), even ignoring the dodginess of using "at" as a mnemonic
for "matrix", and @ as a shortcut for that (doubly so in Python where
@ already means "decorator")