On Mar 24, 3:48 pm, "Charles R Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It is somewhat workable as it stands, but I think it would be nicer if > > we could have some "meta" operator that allowed an alternative > > definition of major operators. Something like @* for example (just > > picking a character that is already used for decorators). > > Yes indeed, this is an old complaint. Just having an infix operator would be > an improvement: > > A dot B dot C In Fortran 90 and later versions, A*B means element-wise multiplication, and there exist intrinsic functions such as matmul(A,B) and dot_product(A,B). One can define operators so that A .x. B .x. C is the same as matmul(A,matmul(B,C)) although I am unsure of the order of operations implied by the former syntax. The Matran http://www.cs.umd.edu/~stewart/matran/Matran.html package does this. I think Fortran's infix operators are a good solution but don't know if it can be carried over to Python. _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
