how to change default behavior of 'times' function

I want to make the times function do element-wise operations by default in the obvious way, even for "non-conformable" matrices. The obvious way to do this would be to overload the times function in the following way:

function y=times(a,b); y=bsxfun(@times,a,b);

The problem with this is that once 'times' is overloaded, bsxfun calls the overloaded function instead of the builtin times function. Any ideas on how to fix this? (Obviously I could hard code the multiplication using the builtin command instead of using bsxfun but that would be slower so I don't want to do that.)

Answer 1

[Jonathan Sullivan]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23821-bsxops

[Lanier]

Thanks for that. I figured I wasn't the first person to try this.