Discussion: new operators for numerical computation

Konrad Hinsen hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr
Fri Jul 21 05:56:27 EDT 2000


"Pete Shinners" <pete at visionart.com> writes:

> but while we're at it, i would hope that we don't overlook the
> potential of elementwise assignment operators. sometimes those
> matrices can get rather large, and rather than create a new
> temporary matrix for every operation, it would be nice to have
> it done "in place"

I am not sure this is useful enough to deserve an operator (it should
of course be available as a function). The major limitation is that
the array that receives the result must have the right shape and type.
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