It kind of seems to me that it's actually vectored multiplication that's the odd one out that should maybe have a special syntax, maybe even one that applies to

It kind of seems to me that it's actually vectored multiplication that's the odd one out that should maybe have a special syntax, maybe even one that applies to many operations and not just multiplication. A matrix is a Thing that happens to also be a collection. A vector you want to multiply is just a collection. Really vector multiplication is just a map operation, so make some syntactic sugar to generate an operator comprehension: a = [1,2,3] b = [4,5,6] c = a [*] b # or something # becomes c = [x * y for (x,y) in zip(a,b)] # or c = a.__vecmul__(b) This would make more sense to me.