I think it is reasonable for users to write code in the latter style, but it errors, can this be improved? julia> [2*3 3*4; 3*4 2*3] 2×2 Matrix{Int64}: 6 12 12 6 julia> [*(2, 3) *(3, 4); *(3, 4) *(2, 3)] ERROR: MethodError: no method matching *(::Int64, ::Tuple{Int64, Int64}) T…

Syntax about *(a, b)

Oscar_Smith June 2, 2025, 2:43am 2

This is some really dumb parsing. It’s parsing as *(2, 3) multiplied by the tuple (3, 4).

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