On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Should also mention that we don't have the ability to operate on stacked
> vectors because they can't be identified by dimension info. One workaround
> is to add dummy dimensions where needed, another is to add two flags, row
> and col, and set them appropriately.
>

I've thought for ages that if you want to naturally do linear algebra, you
need to capture the concept of a row and column vector as distinct from
each-other and from (1,n) and (n,1) shape arrays. So:

+1

-Chris


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