Aligning Series.index with DataFrame.index in broadcasting operations

[shoyer]

Copying my comment from pandas-dev/pandas#10000 (comment):

We should consider making arithmetic between a Series and a DataFrame broadcast across the columns of the dataframe, i.e., aligning series.index with df.index, rather than the current behavior aligning series.index with df.columns.

I think this would be far more useful than the current behavior, because it's much more common to want to do arithmetic between a series and all columns of a DataFrame. This would make broadcasting in pandas inconsistent with NumPy, but I think that's OK for a library that focuses on 1D/2D rather than N-dimensional data structures.

[wesm]

I honestly might even go so far as disabling implicit broadcasting in favor of df.add(series, axis='index'). Perennial source of problems.