On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@cs.tamu.edu> wrote:
>
> What I said for THIS SPECIFIC problem is that the implicit coerciion
> problem comes from
>
>   if R has SetCategory then FullyRetractableTo R
>

Bot note that the specific coercion also comes from Algebra?  Do you
also want to deny that DirectProduct(n,R) satisfies Algebra(R)?

> See the message I sent on June 05, 2010.
>
>  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=877hmdxxmu.fsf%40gauss.cs.tamu.edu
>
> which I'm quoting:
> ...
>  #  ...  This goes back to a comment I made
>  #  a couple of days ago: strange things can happen when operations are
>  #  overloaded just because one can, without much consideration for the
>  #  semantics.
>

Thanks Gaby.

> Bill Page wrote:
> | Does it make sense to use the
> | symbol * to denote mulitiplication of a Matrix by a row vector
> | (DirectProduct)?
>
> That was not my proposal.
>

No, that is how it works now. The question is: should it?

Regards,
Bill Page.

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