Macaulay2 » Documentation
Packages » Macaulay2Doc > The Macaulay2 language > operators > \
next | previous | forward | backward | up | index | toc

\ -- a binary operator

Ways to use symbol \ :

For the programmer

The object \ is a keyword.

This operator may be used as a binary operator in an expression like x\y. The user may install binary methods for handling such expressions with code such as

         X \ Y := (x,y) -> ...

where X is the class of x and Y is the class of y.