Discussion: Introducing new operators for matrix computation

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Huaiyu Zhu wrote:

> That is, instead of sinm(x) and sin(x) we can write
> 
> sin(x) and sin(x.Element())
> 
> But both functions still need to be implemented, and each function call
> would involve a member lookup, an initializsation and a type comparison.


Not if you implement

matpy.sin(x) as

x.__sin__()

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