[Python-ideas] Vectorization [was Re: Add list.join() please]

[Ronald Oussoren]

> On 3 Feb 2019, at 09:54, Adrien Ricocotam <ricocotam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Nice that you implemented it !
> 
> I think all the issues you have right now would go of using another operation. I proposed the @ notation that is clear and different from everything else,
> plus the operator is called "matmul" so it completely makes sense.

The @ operator is meant for matrix multiplication (see PEP 465) and is already used for that in NumPy. IMHO just that is a good enough reason for not using @ as an elementwise application operator (ignoring if having an such an operator is a good idea in the first place).

Ronald


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