
12 Feb
2001
12 Feb
'01
5:58 a.m.
On 12 Feb 2001, Ketil Malde wrote:
qrczak@knm.org.pl (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk) writes:
Why do you stop at allowing addition on Dollars and not include multiplication by a scalar?
Perhaps because there is no good universal type for (*). Sorry, it would have to have a different symbol.
Is this ubiquitous enough that we should have a *standardized* different symbol?
I'd think so.
Any candidates?
.* *. [and .*.] ? where the "." is on the side of the scalar -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk 31 Chalmers Road jf@cl.cam.ac.uk Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (pm only, please)