Sebastien Loisel wrote:
let me describe MATLAB's approach to this. It features a complete suite of matrix operators (+-*/\^), and their pointwise variants (.+ .- ./ .* .^)
That was considered before as well, but rejected on the grounds that the dot-prefixed operators were too cumbersome to use heavily. In MATLAB, the elementwise operations are probably used fairly infrequently. But numpy arrays are often used to vectorise what are otherwise scalar operations, in which case elementwise operations are used almost exclusively. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
