If we could somehow make `I` more visible, wouldn't you think that

B = I*A

is better than

B = eye(10000)*A

?

Small side note: the best we can hope for is probably performance similarly
to B = copy(A) because it wouldn't be okay to alias A and B when B has been
constructed from *.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Júlio Hoffimann <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> As a user I would like to write
>
> B = eye(10000) * A
>
> and have the performance of
>
> B = A
>
> 90% of the users won't be aware of this 1-character variable "I" defined
> in Base nor use it. Also, I can guarantee that "I" is much easier to
> overwrite than a well known function name.
>
> -Júlio
>

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