[SciPy-dev] Suppressing of numpy __mul__, __div__ etc

[Dmitrey]

От кого: Sebastian Walter <sebastian.walter@gmail.com>  
  
    
let me rephrase then. I don't understand why p * ones(2) should give  
Polynomial([ 0., 1., 1.], [-1., 1.]).  

A polynomial over the reals is a data type with a ring structure and
should therefore behave "similarly" to floats IMHO.
    
Since I'm not a numpy developer, I cannot give you irrefutable answer, but I guess it is much more useful for numpy users that are mostly engineering programmers, not researchers of a data type with a ring structure.  
  
Also, this is not only up to polynomials - as it has been mentioned, this issue is important for stacking with SAGE data types, oofuns etc, where users certainly want to get same type instead of an ndarray.  
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