Question: Shortcut or implicit operation?

I discovered incidentally that the command  Matrix(3, 3, `-`) (the number 3 is purely illustrative) returned the same result than the command Matrix(3, 3, (i,j) -> i-j).
In the same way `+` realizes (i,j) -> i+j), `*` realizes (i,j) -> i*j), ...

More surprisingly `.` realizes (i,j) -> i*j while I'm in worksheet mode, with "old" maple input style, and that the command 2.3 does not answer 6 but concatenates 2 and 3.

Is this a known behaviour or an undocumented feature?

 

 

 

 

 

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