Discussion: new operators for numerical computation

[Paul Prescod]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> 
> This would allow constructs such as:
> 
> A(.init)B
> 
> In other words, it would turn all existing __magic__ functions into
> operators.  Not a good idea IMO.

Easily fixed if we map ".foo" to "__operator_foo__" and
"__roperator_foo__".

I strongly prefer name-based proposals to cryptic symbols. I would
support A(.mm)B for matrix multiply and A(.em)B for element multiply,
A(.slv)B for solving and so forth. I can even imagine where this would
be useful in other domains.

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