I find it very hard to imagine Sage using anything other than * (as in A*B) for normal matrix multiplication, as anything else would alienate all of its mathematical users. I would have no reason at all ever to have an element-wise matrix product!
John Cremona On 9 March 2014 15:09, <n...@vorpus.org> wrote: > Greetings, Sage Ones, > > Some of you may have already seen this, but I've started working on a draft > PEP for adding a dedicated operator for matrix multiplication to Python: > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4351 > > https://github.com/njsmith/numpy/blob/matmul-pep/doc/neps/return-of-revenge-of-matmul-pep.rst > > I'm not sure how this would affect Sage, but since I know you have both > matrix-like types and your own ideas about what various unused tokens should > mean, I figure you'll probably have opinions :-). (Also, there's some > discussion of sage.misc.decorators.infix_operator in the final section - > hopefully I'm not mischaracterizing anything there.) The overall goal is to > come up with a proposal that the whole Python numeric community can support, > and that ideally in the long run will help reduce fragmentation in matrix > APIs, so I definitely want to hear your feedback. > > -n > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
