I wonder if it would make sense to have a whole suite of <_> wrapped math operators. I could imagine, for example, the Decimal library implementing them and you could import to the decimal calculations easily without sacrificing the regular math operators.
Michał. On 17 May 2018, 12:52 +0200, José Valim <jose.va...@gmail.com>, wrote: > 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 Valim > www.plataformatec.com.br > Founder and > Director of R&D > > > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Stas Versilov <stas.versi...@gmail.com> > > 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 Valim > > > > www.plataformatec.com.br > > > > Founder and > > > > Director of R&D > > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Stas Versilov <stas.v...@gmail.com> > > > > > 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 elixir-lang-co...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/b7f939f4-50a1-49f7-bcc6-c82405c1eb33%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > > 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 elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/8cebaaeb-fe12-4601-a3ac-5af683304fc2%40googlegroups.com. > > > 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 elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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. -- 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 elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/ad3ac929-1813-46da-8377-2a69f7b5dd60%40Spark. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
