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riffraff
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Python 3.5 to Ship with Matrix Multiplication Oper...
one question I could not see from the PEP page: why not use a spelling "dot" instead of a symbol? i.e. "a dot b"
alexchamberlain
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When dealing with vectors, the dot product has a specific definition, so it would be very confusing.
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That might lead to a backwards incompatible symbol clash with `numpy.dot`, `scipy.sparse.csr_matrix.dot`, user code, etc.
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