Discussion: Introducing new operators for matrix computation

[Matt Feinstein]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:47:23 GMT, hzhu at localhost.localdomain (Huaiyu
Zhu) wrote:


>
>>The main thing I'd think about in addition to standard MATLAB syntax
>>is a natural 'prolongation' syntax.
>
>Are you thinking about this?
>a = [1 2]
>b = [3 4]
>[a,b]  # [1 2 3 4]
>[a;b]  # [1 2; 3 4]
>

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]


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