[Python-Dev] PEP 465: A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Apr 9 17:25:50 CEST 2014


On 4/8/2014 6:32 PM, cjw wrote:
> Larry Hastings
> <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/133818.html>
> wasn't far from the truth.

Larry's note was about adding (redundant) *NON-ascii* unicode symbols, 
in particular × == \xd7, as in A × B, as a synonym for '@'. Various 
people have suggested adding various symbol synonyms, such as the Greek 
letter lambda for 'lambda', or a middle dot for '*'.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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