Discussion: Introducing new operators for matrix computation

[Matt Feinstein]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:51:05 +0200, Gregory Lielens
<gregory.lielens at fft.be> wrote:

>
>> >>The main thing I'd think about in addition to standard MATLAB syntax
>> >>is a natural 'prolongation' syntax.
>> What I mean is, given vectors, e.g.,
>> 
>> d = [d1 d2]
>> c = [ c1 c2 c3]
>> 
>> an apparently incorrect element-wise multiplication like
>> 
>> d'.*c
>> 
>> would be interpreted as
>> 
>> [d1 d1 d1; d2 d2 d2].*[c1 c2 c3;c1 c2 c3]
>> 
>which is a classical matrix product d'*c, I think,at least if you
>distinguish between line and column vectors...
>

AUUGH. That's what happens when you post too early in the morning.

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