Re: A3: hyper operators with operand of different size

2001-10-05 Thread Damian Conway
Stéphane writes: > Hyper operators with operands of different size are partly covered > in A3: > > Hyper operators will also intuit where a dimension is missing from one > of its arguments, and replicate a scalar value to a list value in that > dimension. That means yo

Re: A3: hyper operators with operand of different size

2001-10-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 09:52 PM 10/4/2001 +, Stephane Payrard wrote: >Really hyper-operator is too long :) >How do you say "mot valise" in English to denote this conflation of words, >I think Lewis Caroll had a word for that. I'm pretty sure you're looking for "Portmanteau"...

Re: A3: hyper operators with operand of different size

2001-10-04 Thread David M. Lloyd
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Stephane Payrard wrote: > Hyper operators with operands of different size are partly covered > in A3: > > > Hyper operators will also intuit where a dimension is missing from one > of its arguments, and replicate a scalar value to a list value in that > dimension. That