Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Oh look, another language (ceylon) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:25:16 +1300 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1f0ffad0-f9b1-4154-b048-510d8e38846e@googlegroups.com> <4866750c-2e2f-4289-b2bd-df4a565fcf7b@googlegroups.com> <528b0c85$0$11089$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net /rGF/o3kEK4dGPGxfguMNAAziMeF20UFtkvXesRGK1cnxeUJqd Cancel-Lock: sha1:Z2Q/fsLT5FZl4RnOhY5iswWv0S0= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <528b0c85$0$11089$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:60053 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Which sum would that be? > > Addition of vectors, matrices, quaternions, tensors, something else? Considering vectors, multiplying a vector by a scalar can be thought of as putting n copies of the vector together nose-to-tail. That's not very much different from putting n copies of a string one after another. -- Greg