Operators for matrix: current choices (Was Matlab vs Python ...)

[Charles Boncelet]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> 
> Tim Hochberg wrote:
> >
> > Similarly:
> >
> > dot((A,B), C) -> A(B)(C)
> > dot(A, dot(B,C) -> A(B(C))
> >
> > which looks pretty good to me. And it's arguably closer to paper
> > linear algebra notation than A*B is.
> 
> Another good idea! You can even make it look like the new-syntax
> proposal:
> 
> A()*B()*C
> A()+B()+C
> A()-B()-C
> 

Please don't do either of these.  This solution is worse than the
original problem.  To a mathematician, A() and A(B) look too much
like function calls and not like multiplication.  
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