On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> This sounds great in principle. I haven't seen any details yet (haven't > had time to look). > > Is there a strong reason to go with the R syntax for multiplication instead > of the matlab convention that a*b means a.times(b)? > As discussed, but also because matlab style elementwise operators are impossible to keep at proper precedence level in scala. It kind of has to start with either '*' or '%' to keep proper precedence, '.*' will not work unfortunately. And mix along the lines "some of Matlab, some of perhaps completely something else' does not seem appealing at all.
