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diff --git a/doc/neps/return-of-revenge-of-matmul-pep.rst b/doc/neps/return-of-revenge-of-matmul-pep.rst index 861c7663b..d9a910b75 100644 --- a/doc/neps/return-of-revenge-of-matmul-pep.rst +++ b/doc/neps/return-of-revenge-of-matmul-pep.rst @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Nathaniel J. Smith <njs@pobox.com> Status: Draft Type: Standards Track -Python-Version: 3.5 Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 20-Feb-2014 +Python-Version: 3.5 Post-History: 13-Mar-2014 Abstract @@ -833,12 +833,12 @@ one is the special case. Finally, there is the option of using multi-character tokens. Some options: -* Matlab uses a ``.*`` operator. Aside from being visually confusable - with ``*``, this would be a terrible choice for us because in - Matlab, ``*`` means matrix multiplication and ``.*`` means - elementwise multiplication, so using ``.*`` for matrix - multiplication would make us exactly backwards from what Matlab - users expect. +* Matlab and Julia use a ``.*`` operator. Aside from being visually + confusable with ``*``, this would be a terrible choice for us + because in Matlab and Julia, ``*`` means matrix multiplication and + ``.*`` means elementwise multiplication, so using ``.*`` for matrix + multiplication would make us exactly backwards from what Matlab and + Julia users expect. * APL apparently used ``+.×``, which by combining a multi-character token, confusing attribute-access-like . syntax, and a unicode @@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ options: ``[*]`` or ``|*|`` (but when used in context, the use of vertical grouping symbols tends to recreate the nested parentheses visual clutter that was noted as one of the major downsides of the function - syntax we're trying to get away from); ``^*`` and ``^^``. + syntax we're trying to get away from); ``^*``. So, it doesn't matter much, but ``@`` seems as good or better than any of the alternatives: |