Should we add `a * b` for vectors?
Nicholas Wilson
iamthewilsonator at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 25 01:08:35 UTC 2017
On Sunday, 24 September 2017 at 23:59:59 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 September 2017 at 22:33:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>
>> With UFCS, you have the slightly nicer notation a.dot(b) and
>> a.cross(b).
>>
>>
>> T
>
> Below is a link to the operators in Matlab and associated
> functions. mir can include all of those functions, but not all
> of them can be implemented as operators (because D doesn't have
> things like .*). I think it would be annoying to constantly
> have to write plus or mtimes in writing formulas for a linear
> algebra library.
>
> https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/matlab-operators-and-special-characters.html
There's nothing stopping someone writing a DIP to include `@`
(and possibly `#`) as overloadable binary operators. All other
characters on the standard keyboard are used I think.
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