If there is no speed penalty or any other kind of penalty, it would be nice that Unicode characters × (00D7) and − (2212) be recognized by Julia as multiplication and minus operators as they are by Google. Sometimes I copy a formula written in a word processor to a piece of code or an arithmetic co…

They are not the same julia> using LinearAlgebra julia> x = rand(5); y = rand(5); julia> x ⋅ y 0.9319630238212403 julia> x * y ERROR: MethodError: no method matching *(::Vector{Float64}, ::Vector{Float64})

Unicode multiplication × and minus − signs could be recognized by Julia as the are by Google

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Using LinearAlgebra, a dot operator is equivalent to an Asterix. Why not without the LinearAlgebra standard library?

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Unicode multiplication × and minus − signs could be recognized by Julia as the are by Google

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