On 2014-03-09, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2014-03-09 16:09, n...@vorpus.org wrote: >> I definitely want to hear your feedback. > I completely agree with John Cremona: please keep * for matrix > multiplication. Why not add a new dedicated operator for elementwise > multiplication and use * for matrix multiplication? > > In your PEP, you say that using * for matrix multiplication is a bad > idea, but without any justification (the only justification is > variations on "it's a bad idea" without reasons).
In fact the PEP has a justification along the lines that elementwise matrix multiplication and scalar multiplication pops up 4 times more often in numpy code. But I doubt that the count was made correctly. Even if it was the case, still this would be truly horrible idea to use * for entrywise matrix multiplication... I've posted a comment here: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4351#issuecomment-37135112 Dima > > Jeroen. > -- 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.
