The @. syntax is definetly an improvement. I don't have an issue with the principle of the dot syntax just with the symbol. The examples in your link perfectly

The @. syntax is definetly an improvement. I don't have an issue with the principle of the dot syntax just with the symbol. The examples in your link perfectly illustrate the issue. If this was a line in a long code base maybe even with mixed element-wise and matrix operations it would be very easy to overlook a missing dot. It would be even worse if the constants were floats. It is just such a terrible choice of symbol for this operation, because it is so easy to overlook. Everyone I know always looks for missing dots if they encounter a some nonstraight forward bug in matlab (I don't know any Julia users).