At 15:15 -0400 4/21/04, Dan Sugalski wrote: >At 10:24 AM -0700 4/21/04, Jeff Clites wrote: >>then there wouldn't be any temptation to think of >>+<< as a separate operator. > >I think... that'd be bad, generally speaking. (And not just because the math folks >have tensors and know what to do with 'em) It's a separate set of operations and, >while there are *default* behaviors, there's reason to override those defaults while >not touching other things.
It's nice to see that they are no longer "vector" operators. Thanks Larry. But >>+<< really is a vector sum in the mathematical sense. It's >>*<< that I would really like to override some day so that, with a scalar result expected, it will return the sum of the products taken component wise - the dot product. $dotproduct = @myclassvectorA >>*<< @myclassvectorB; It could also return a cross product (not just a component-wise product) in a list context. @myclassvectorX = @myclassvectorA >>*<< @myclassvectorB; Multiplying a vector by a scalar should do just what the hyper-op does. @mylongervector = $scalefactor >>*<< @myclassvectorA; I understand that it's not practical extraction and report generation and understandably shouldn't be built into perl 6, but the individual override capability seems important to me. -- --> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't <--
