Discussion: new operators for numerical computation

Travis Oliphant olipt at mayo.edu
Thu Jul 20 12:30:41 EDT 2000


Three choices I've seen for the new operators so far:

	Operators 1	Operators 2	Operators 3	Name
	   .*	            @              (*)          matmul
	   ./               @/             (/)          matdiv
           /.               /@             ?????        matsol
           .**              @@             (**)         matpow

I agree that .+ and .- are not necessary.

I like #3 best (assuming something can be invented for matsol).  If not,
then #2 looks O.K. 

I think that .* could only mean matrix-wise and agree that it would
confuse any current Matlab users and so we should not use it.

Travis Oliphant





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