Re: vector vs. hyper

2002-10-29 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:55:57PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > > damian's syntax table and his use of the term vectorizing made me wonder > why we call his [op] thing a hyperoperator? the word hyper i assume came > from hyperdimensional. but calling [] the vectorizing (or just vectored) > op varia

vector vs. hyper

2002-10-29 Thread Uri Guttman
damian's syntax table and his use of the term vectorizing made me wonder why we call his [op] thing a hyperoperator? the word hyper i assume came from hyperdimensional. but calling [] the vectorizing (or just vectored) op variant makes much more sense. @sum = @a [+] @b ; that reads as ve