On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Andrew Dalke <da...@dalkescientific.com> wrote:
> My preference is for same-left. I rarely work with numpy, and it's more > likely that I'll see '@' used in a non-numpy context. That is, people > in general will see "@" as a sort of free-for-all operator, to use and abuse > as they wish. [1] > > (For example, Pyparsing has a lot of operator overloads to help make > a grammar definition, and they make good sense in that context, but '<<' > for recursive definitions is perhaps past the edge.) > > Someone looking at a "@", without any intuition on precedence or > associativity of matrix operations in a mathematical package, will > have to figure things out from the documentation or (more likely) > experimentation. I think the one thing this discussion has settled is that there is *no* common intuition about the precedence or associativity of matrix operations in a mathematical package. :-) I think the operator-overload-as-DSL use cases actually argue somewhat for right-associativity. There is no lack of left-associative operators for these use cases to choose from since they usually don't have numeric or bitwise operations defined for them. Right-associativity adds some diversity into the ecosystem and opens up some design space. -- Robert Kern _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion