✨: add HasArrayMul protocol

Support multiplication operator for array classes

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Starkman <[email protected]>

Author: nstarman

src/array_api_typing/_array.py

@@ -112,12 +112,33 @@ def __sub__(self, other: Self | int | float, /) -> Self:
         ...
 
 
+class CanArrayMul(Protocol):
+    """Protocol for array classes that support the multiplication operator."""
+
+    def __mul__(self, other: Self | int | float, /) -> Self:
+        """Calculates the product for each element of an array instance with the respective element of the array `other`.
+
+        Args:
+            other: multiplicand array. Must be compatible with self (see Broadcasting). Should have a numeric data type.
+
+        Returns:
+            Self: an array containing the element-wise products. The returned
+            array must have a data type determined by Type Promotion Rules.
+
+        See Also:
+            array_api_typing.Multiply
+
+        """  # noqa: E501
+        ...
+
+
 class Array(
     HasArrayNamespace[NS_co],
     CanArrayPos,
     CanArrayNeg,
     CanArrayAdd,
     CanArraySub,
+    CanArrayMul,
     Protocol,
 ):
     """Array API specification for array object attributes and methods."""