On 24/03/07, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes indeed, this is an old complaint. Just having an infix operator would be > an improvement: > > A dot B dot C > > Not that I am suggesting dot in this regard ;) In particular, it wouldn't > parse without spaces. What about division? Matlab has both / and \ for left > and right matrix division and something like that could call solve instead > of inverse, leading to some efficiencies. We also have both dot and > tensordot, which raises the problem of interpretation when ndim > 2.
There's always the Haskell approach: *every* function can be an infix operator, just surround the name with backticks; functions with line-noise names (like + * - /) are infix by default. Not a good idea for python, I think. Anne. _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
