Talk:Function definition: Difference between revisions
Ambiguous for another reason, as well.
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"multiplication" is a somewhat ambiguous mathematical operation depending on the data type. I don't think it's a big deal, I am assuming that the arguments are supposed to be scalars and such, but in a vector language like IDL where one rarely encounters scalars, there is a distinction to be made between "product of the elements of the vectors" or "inner product of the vectors" or "outer product of the vectors" or "matrix multiplication". Just figured I'd mention this somewhere... [[User:Sgeier|Sgeier]] 19:08, 4 December 2007 (MST)
: I was just looking around, and I noticed it was ambiguous for another reason: It's commutative. A non-commutative operation might be more appropriate for scalar arguments. I'm not sure about other types such as vectors or functors. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 02:46, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
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