Discussion: Introducing new operators for matrix computation

[Paul Prescod]

Gregory Lielens wrote:
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> ...
>
> I personnaly consider that linear algebra is an extension of simple
> arithmetic, almost on the same level as complex numbers (and usefull to
> the same kind of people which could use complex numbers).
> The fact that complex numbers are part of built-in python types and can
> be manipulated using standard arithmetic operators plead for a similar
> facility for linear algebra, imho.

That situation was entirely different. Complex numbers required very
little syntax and the object is built into Python. You are asking for a
lot of syntax but not proposing that your module go into Python. In
other words it is a lot of syntax that doesn't get used until you
install a third party module.

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