Allow bitshifting matricies if they are integers about nalgebra HOT 3 CLOSED

In terms of arithmetic operations on matrices, these don't necessarily correspond to simple componentwise operations; the * operator implements matrix multiplication, as opposed to just multiplying each entry. + and - do perform componentwise operations, but this is somewhat "coincidental" due to the fact that adding and subtracting matrices as mathematical objects "works out" to be a componentwise operation (and multiplication doesn't.) So I think the decision not to implement bit-shifts through operator overloading specifically is because these operations don't have a well-accepted meaning when applied to matrices, so it might be misleading to users.

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This can be done with a constant bit shift amount using the map function on the matrix, or componentwise using the zip_map function. Would these work for your use case, or is there a strong reason to have dedicated functions for these?

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Not really a "strong reason" other than its a basic math operation that could be supported, and all the others are, so why not? Just seemed it had been overlooked, because I couldn't find anything demonstrating a deliberate decision not to implement it.

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