[Numpy-discussion] big picture? One proposal  Pearu Peterson
pearu at cens.ioc.ee Fri Mar 8 02:27:13 CST 2002   On Fri, 8 Mar
2002, Konrad Hinsen wrote:  <removed relevant comments>  > >
Numeric community is united on this, I think Guido would be
receptive. > > We might suggest a particular operator symbol or
pair (triple) but  > Actually I feel quite safe: there might be
a majority for another > operator, but I don't expect we'd ever
agree on a symbol :-)  Thanks Konrad for this excellent point.
Seeing all these proposals about solving our matrix-array issues
makes also me feel safer with the current situation. My general
point is that a _good_ solution is simple, if a solution is not
simple, then it is probably a bad solution.  I find separating
array and matrix instances (in a sense of raising exception when
doing <matrix> <op> <array>) not a very simple solution:   New
concepts are introduced that actually do not solve the
simplicity problem of representing matrix operations. As I see
it, they only introd