Guido van Rossum wrote:
last time '@' was considered as a new operator, that character had no uses in the language at all. Now it is the decorator marker.
The only alternatives left would seem to be ?, ! or $, none of which look particularly multiplicationish.
But would it be totally outlandish to propose A**B for matrix multiplication? I can't think of what "matrix exponentiation" would mean...
But ** has the same problem -- it already represents an elementwise operation on numpy arrays. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
