Discussion: new math operators

[Greg Ewing]

Huaiyu Zhu <hzhu at knowledgetrack.com> writes:
> 
>  3. If there could be future calculus of operators, would we now
>     favor (*)= or (*=) for augmented assignment?

Depends on whether you want to elementwise multiply and assign,
or multiply and assign elementwise :-)

I'm sure the people who favour + and .+ doing different things
will be able to come up with some subtle difference between
these, and argue for having both...

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