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A comment on PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplication and matrix power. Parent comment

Re:PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplica... by akehrer on Sunday March 16, 2014 @08:24AM (#7409185)
This is this[1] workaround.

I wonder if a whole set of infix matrix operations could be added to reduce the need to load numpy for simple tasks.

    A @* B
    A @. B
    A @+ B
[1] http://code.activestate.com/recipes/384122/
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Re:PEP 465 – Dedicated infix operators for matrix multiplica... by pcarbonn on Sunday March 16, 2014 @01:05PM (#7410182)
Yes, but making it part of the language would bring clear error messages in case of misuse, and would allow the use of a different token, e.g. ":", as in smalltalk
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