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[Python-Dev] PEP 465: A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Wed Apr 9 01:26:08 CEST 2014 
On 9 Apr 2014 00:15, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Victor Stinner wrote:
>>
>> I started to implement the RFC 1924 to have a full support.
>>
>> 3 days later, when my code was working, I saw the date of the RFC...
>
>
> Do you still have the code? It needn't go to waste -- this
> would make a fine addition to Python's easter egg basket!

Even if not it would be pretty easy to reimplement - maybe 10-20 loc. If
you look the joke is they represent 128 bit ipaddrs in a base that's
relatively prime to 2, necessitating a full bignum library just for io. But
python has bignums for free...

-n
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