On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Chris Laumann <chris.laum...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all, > > Let me preface my two cents by saying that I think the best part of @ > being accepted is the potential for deprecating the matrix class -- the > syntactic beauty of infix for matrix multiply is a nice side effect IMHO :) > This may be why my basic attitude is: > > I don't think it matters very much but I would vote (weakly) for > weak-right. Where there is ambiguity, I suspect most practitioners will > just put in parentheses anyway -- especially with combinations of * and @, > where I don't think there is a natural intuitive precedence relationship. > At least, element-wise multiplication is very rare in math/physics texts as > an explicitly defined elementary operation so I'd be surprised if anybody > had a strong intuition about the precedence of the '*' operator. > My take on this is that if you mix * and @, you are probably using * to build the matrices you want to __matmul__ with @. So weak-right would be the way to go from that point of view. Jaime
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