Discussion: Introducing new operators for matrix computation

[Paul Prescod]

Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
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> ...
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> How about [x+y: x in [1,2], y in [3,4]]?
> 
> But this has nothing to do with matrices, because one of their main virtue
> is that you do not need to consider the indices.  

I know that it has nothing to do with matrices. My point was that there
is already a patch for Python to allow operations to be "elementwise"
and it is more general than doubling the number of operators in Python.
It allows any expression to be made elementwise (including function
calls and so forth).

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