On Fri, 25 May 2018 22:46:37 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > We've already had a suggestion for [[]]@5 and that should deal with that > issue. Steven is proposing "multiply by copying" as an alternative to > "multiply by referencing", so an alternative multiplication operator > should fit that correctly. Steve, I don't want to speak for you; can you > confirm or deny acceptance of the matmul operator as a better spelling?
I thought that ** would be less controversial than @ since that's much newer. Silly me. Personally, I don't care much either way. Probably a microscopic preference for @ over ** since it is shorter, but not enough to matter. The usefulness of * with lists is seriously compromised by the inability to copy mutable items in the list. Consequently, it is an on-going gotcha and pain point. On the other hand, it is arguable that what we really need is a standard function to return an N-dimensional array/list: # return a 3x4x5x6 4-D list initialised to all zeroes arr = list.dimensions(3, 4, 5, 6, initial=0.0) -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
