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"Nasser Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> wrote in message
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>
> "Dan Nagle" <dannagle@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:tHkcg.6937$kR6.484@trnddc05...
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> >> 11) Operators on any types, including arrays. Define a matrix product as
> >> "*"...
> >
> > How is Ada's operators for types better or worse than Fortran's?
> > Is Ada's "*" operator better than Fortran's matmul()?
>
> I'll answer the easy one for now since I have not had my coffee yet:
>
> It is clear that
>
>                            A*B
>
> is easier to read and understand than
>
>                     MATMUL(A,B)
>
> would you not agree?

But a casual user would ask, does A*B mean term by term or matrix product?
If one, then how is the other distinguished?
    A casual user would probably recognize MATMUL as
being matrix multiplication, not term by term.