Operators for everything (was Re: Operators for matrix)

[Greg Ewing]

Phil Austin wrote:
> 
> %%                       Arithmetic Operators (base)
> %*%                      Matrix Multiplication (base)
> %/%                      Arithmetic Operators (base)
> %in%                     Value Matching (base)
> %o%                      Outer Product of Arrays (base)
> %x%                      Kronecker Product of Arrays (base)
> &                        Logical Operators (base)
> &&                       Logical Operators (base)

I think this must be the *worst* looking syntax that's
been proposed so far...

I'm beginning to think that simply adding @ for matrix
multiplication, and nothing else, is the least of all
the evils being considered.

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