Thanks for the clarification. Let's go ahead and add <*>. Regardless of this use case, I think it fits the current set of custom operators.
*José Valimwww.plataformatec.com.br <http://www.plataformatec.com.br/>Founder and Director of R&D* On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Stas Versilov <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that other math operators used on matrices are only in > element-wise form (+, -, /, *), so, usual math operators are enough for > this. > But multiplication can be element-wise or dot-product, hence, we need two > separate operators. > > I saw Swift guys using <*> for dot-product, seemed like a good choice for > me. > > > > > On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 1:24:28 PM UTC+4, José Valim wrote: >> >> Hi Stas, >> >> Given that we already have <|>, I don't see a problem with adding <*>. My >> only question is why choose dot product to have an operator? Wouldn't >> matrex end-up requiring other operators anyway? If we add <*>, how would >> those other operators look like in terms of consistency? >> >> >> >> *José Valimwww.plataformatec.com.br >> <http://www.plataformatec.com.br/>Founder and Director of R&D* >> >> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Stas Versilov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> I'am developing a matrix manipulation library for Elixir ( >>> https://github.com/versilov/matrex) >>> and it would be really nice to have <*> operator, so that it could be >>> overriden for matrices dot product (or element-wise multiplication). >>> >>> Is it possible to add it? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >>> gid/elixir-lang-core/b7f939f4-50a1-49f7-bcc6-c82405c1eb33% >>> 40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/b7f939f4-50a1-49f7-bcc6-c82405c1eb33%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/elixir-lang-core/8cebaaeb-fe12-4601-a3ac- > 5af683304fc2%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/8cebaaeb-fe12-4601-a3ac-5af683304fc2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4K8bztEvVs6MPMKY53mia1MwFtWMFtnHPeysQxo6_GgsA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
