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

[Robert Kern]

On 2014-03-14 16:39, Nathan Schneider wrote:

> In Courier New:
>
>      S = (H @ beta - r).T @ inv(H @ V @ H.T) @ (H @ beta - r)
>
> Still looks kind of bulky to me, because @ is the height and width of a capital
> letter. How about prefixing * with an innocuous backtick?
>
>      S = (H `* beta - r).T `* inv(H `* V `* H.T) `* (H `* beta - r)
>
> That way no part of the operator extends to the baseline, so identifiers and
> parentheses/brackets are visually well-separated from this as they are with most
> other binary operators.

Fails the grit-on-Tim's-monitor test, or at least the grit-on-Robert's-monitor test.

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Robert Kern

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