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

[Oleg Broytman]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:53:47AM -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Antony Lee <antony.lee at berkeley.edu>wrote:
> > A simple suggestion: what about defining the special methods as __at__,
> > __rat__, __iat__ (@) and __atat__, __ratat__, __iatat__ (@@)?  This make
> > the operator more "neutral" -- it make it sound less "wrong" to overload it
> > for something else that matrix multiplication (which is certainly an
> > important topic, but even though I use numpy quite a lot, I don't actually
> > use it at all for linear algebra (in fact I use elementwise multiplications
> > much more often) -- so counting imports of numpy is a somewhat biaised
> > metric for counting users of matrix multiplication).
> 
> Ratatatatatat! :-)

   Is this the sound made by matrices being multiplied? ;-)

Oleg.
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