On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > On Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:09:58 AM UTC-7, 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 >> > > I've seen many examples of complicated matrix expressions that really > benefit from having an infix notation for matrix multiplication. I haven't > seen many examples of complicated expressions that involve element-wise > multiplication, and none that mix the two. Therefore, in the absence of two > infix multiplication operators, would it make sense to have "A*B" denote > matrix product and "A.hadamard(B)" or "A.elementwise_product(B)" > element-wise product? This is what sage already does. >
I think their objection is that hadamard is too long, given the ubiquity of element-wise product in the numerical computing world. From Sage's perspective, I don't think we want anything to change. David -- 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.
