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

[Nick Coghlan]

On 17 March 2014 13:46, Bruce Leban <bruce at leapyear.org> wrote:
> I also want to give a larger example to illustrate the kind of thing I think
> this operator would be useful for. SQLAlchemy has query objects where you
> can write something like
>
> some_query.filter(...).order_by(...).join(...)
>
>
> I image that this could use the @ operator:
>
> some_query @ filter(...) @ order_by(...) @ join(...)

There are plenty of existing left-associative operators that could be
used for that if Mike Bayer wanted (or could be convinced) to do so,
so I don't see how that observation is relevant to the question of
whether or not this particular proposal should be for a
right-associative operator.

Cheers,
Nick.

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