[J3] A couple more ideas for features

[Van Snyder]

On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 20:14 +0000, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> > 
> > My colleagues asked for "\", as in MatLab, so they could define an
> > operator useful to write matrix expressions involving
> > multiplication on the left by a matrix inverse.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Demmel has a famous homework problem in his course at Berkeley
> where students reverse engineer Matlab \.
> 
> 
> 
> I would encourage anyone proposing to add this feature to Fortran to
> first solve that homework problem and submit a paper to J3 with the
> results.

If you read the message carefully, you will notice that I proposed to
allow "\" to be used as a defined operator, not as an intrisic pre-
multiplication by the inverse of a matrix.

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