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

[Robert Kern]

On 2014-03-14 16:41, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> * The mATrices mnemonic is cute.

I recommend dropping this mnemonic from the PEP. It has been pointed out that 
the mnemonic does not cross languages[1], and even to my Anglo ears is not 
especially evocative.

[1] Python, like most programming languages, is unabashedly Anglocentric in its 
keywords, standard library and documentation, so some amount of Anglocentrism in 
new language features is unavoidable. My point is just that an Anglocentric 
mnemonic isn't really helping the argument for the PEP. If the PEP needs a 
mnemonic to survive, this is not going to cut it. If the PEP doesn't need a 
mnemonic, as I believe, it's best left out.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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