Ellery Newcomer wrote: > On 02/03/2010 03:09 PM, Simen kjaeraas wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:19:57 +0100, Michiel Helvensteijn >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> bearophile wrote: >>> >>>>> Indeed. The difficult question is, what would the syntax be? >>>> >>>> What about the simper: >>>> x.dot(y) >>> >>> I don't like symmetric operations with an asymmetric syntax. >>> >>> Better: dot(x, y) >>> Even better: dot_product(x, y) >>> Funner: sum(x .* y) >> >> Weirder: >> >> x · y >> > > I vote obscure unicode character \u2743: heavy chevron snowflake > > x ❆ y
Considering TeX was invented (in part) to handle typesetting of mathematical formulae, one might imagine it would be a good idea to use its syntax... x \mdot y Yeah, maybe not...
