[Python-ideas] Fwd: [RFC] draft PEP: Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Antony Lee <antony.lee at berkeley.edu>wrote:

> A simple suggestion: what about defining the special methods as __at__,
> __rat__, __iat__ (@) and __atat__, __ratat__, __iatat__ (@@)?  This make
> the operator more "neutral" -- it make it sound less "wrong" to overload it
> for something else that matrix multiplication (which is certainly an
> important topic, but even though I use numpy quite a lot, I don't actually
> use it at all for linear algebra (in fact I use elementwise multiplications
> much more often) -- so counting imports of numpy is a somewhat biaised
> metric for counting users of matrix multiplication).
>

Ratatatatatat! :-)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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