new bitwise module [was Re: Discussion: new operators ...]

[Greg Ewing]

Ben Wolfson wrote:
> 
> a[i] bitleft:= 1
> 
> No one in his or her right mind could possibly see anything wrong with
> that.

So I assume that the matrix people will all be perfectly
satisfied with

   A matrixmultiply B
   A elementwiseadd B

etc. :-)

Seriously, the matrix people were complaining that there weren't
enough operator symbols available for overloading... and now
they want to *remove* a whole bunch of operator symbols! Seems
a tad incongruous to me.

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