On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 7:23:57 AM UTC-5, Samuel Lelievre wrote: > > > 2016-06-02 14:01:16 UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer: >> >> Summary: Python should have a unary division operator (a.k.a. >> reciprocal), written "/x", analogous to unary subtraction (a.k.a. >> negation), written "-x". And then "~x" should be what is intended by >> Python, namely bitwise negation. >> >> Rationale: Mark Bell gave a talk at Sage Days 74 and he mentioned this >> as a problem. His software (flipper) uses bitwise negation (the ~ >> operator) a lot and that breaks when using Sage Integers, where ~ means >> reciprocal. >> >> Given that Python does not have a reciprocal operator, this problem >> cannot really be fixed. So if we want operators both for bitwise >> negation and reciprocal, we need to add a new operator to Python. >> >> I have no idea how feasible it is to actually get a new feature accepted >> by Python, but it makes a lot of sense to me and the numpy people pulled >> it off for the matrix multiplication @ operator. >> > > +1 >
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