I would like to see if the '@' has wider use than matrix multiplication. One of my thoughts is to use it in XML processing, as a shortcut to get an attribute, s

I would like to see if the '@' has wider use than matrix multiplication. One of my thoughts is to use it in XML processing, as a shortcut to get an attribute, so 'node @ "name"' is equivalent to 'node.attrib.get("name")'.