New operators needed? (was Re: Discussion: new operators for numerical computation)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <m3lmypfdwe.fsf at chinon.cnrs-orleans.fr>,
Konrad Hinsen  <hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote:
>
>You raise an important point: adding operators may not be the best
>solution at all.
>
>With the ongoing rework of NumPy that turns arrays into Python classes
>with an underlying C implementation, it would be possible to have an
>"array" and a "matrix" class with different semantics, but sharing
>most of the code and having equal performance. Conversion between the
>two would also be possible at basically no cost, and C modules could
>be written to accept both.

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