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Discussion: new operators for numerical computation

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Thu Jul 20 09:48:05 EDT 2000 
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007191505070.1129-100000 at rocket.knowledgetrack.com>,
Huaiyu Zhu  <huaiyu_zhu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>        matrix          element      names (with prefix m or e)
>          +               .+            add
>          -               .-            sub

I am strongly opposed to operators of the form ".+".  What happens if
take an expression of the form "5.+matrix"?  No, that goes against the
Python rule of having zero ambiguity.
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