[julia-users] Re: I feel that on the syntax level, Julia sacrificed too much elegancy trying to be compatible with textbook math notations

[Siyi Deng]

I tend to agree that explicit broadcasting is better than numpy's default 
behavior.

However, IMO operations on the n-d arrays is better defaulted to 
element-wise, and n-d with scalar default to element-wise too.

Think about it, a lot of operations are not even commonly defined for 3-d 
and above, so why wasting the most straightforward (a+b, a*b, a/b) syntaxes 
on special-case matrix operations?  

In numerical computing, matrix math is only like 5% of the times and the 
other 95% are element-wise or tensor-like.