[Python-Dev] Infix operators (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jul 25 04:08:42 CEST 2008

Fredrik Johansson wrote:

Anyway, it is easy to define pseudo-operators in Python;

A matrixmul B A dot B A cross B A elementwise B

Urg. This is another one of those recipes that I consider is too clever for its own good. Very nice in theory, but I would never use it in real life.

What's more, it doesn't address the real problem at hand, which is providing a notation for matrix multiplication that is concise enough to be used very frequently -- like multiple times in every line of code that manipulates matrices.

-- Greg

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