[Python-ideas] Adding "+" and "+=" operators to dict
Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
chris.barker at noaa.gov
Sat Feb 14 01:46:21 CET 2015
>> As a regular numpy user, I'd be very happy about that too :-).
I wouldn't -- I hated that in Matlab.
It turns out the only ace it's really useful is the two kinds of
multiplication -- and we've now got the @ operator for that.
> . I just fear it may be too late.
In some sense, it's too late _not_ to have them. It's been argued in
this thread that overloading the math operators for things that
aren't clearly math was a mistake. In which case they could be used
for element-wise operations. But python wasn't designed to be an array
oriented language -- so this is where we are.
-Chris
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