Deprecate the backslash operator #36394
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Deprecate the backslash operator.
Deprecate the backslash operator: it is underused and its current implementation conflicts with standard Python usage of
\
. A poll on sage-devel supports this decision.The backslash operator is only used in a few places, mainly matrices and matroids; those uses are deprecated.
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