Michał, I think the issue with your proposed approach is precedence. <+>
and <*> need to have different precedences and where should we put those
operators compared to all others?



*José Valimwww.plataformatec.com.br
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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Michał Muskała <mic...@muskala.eu> wrote:

> 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?
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