Array operation for computing the dot product?

[BCS]

Hello Ellery,

> On 02/03/2010 03:09 PM, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:19:57 +0100, Michiel Helvensteijn
>> <m.helvensteijn.remove at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> bearophile wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Indeed. The difficult question is, what would the syntax be?
>>>>> 
>>>> What about the simper:
>>>> x.dot(y)
>>> I don't like symmetric operations with an asymmetric syntax.
>>> 
>>> Better: dot(x, y)
>>> Even better: dot_product(x, y)
>>> Funner: sum(x .* y)
>> Weirder:
>> 
>> x · y
>> 
> I vote obscure unicode character \u2743: heavy chevron snowflake
> 
> x ❆ y
> 

or why not: x ♣ y;

no wait that would delete y and assign x to it.


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