Re: Bug in parser?

On 31 May 2003, Gerhard Dieringer wrote:

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> Inconsistent results when calling '+' operator with text arguemts
> The last 4 results (f.e. '1' + '2' -> 'c') are very strange.

'1'+'2' is pretty meaningless.  In the other cases you're giving a type
that has a meaningful + operator so it's trying to convert  the quoted
argument to an appropriate type for +.  In the '1'+'2' case it's
converting to "char" (single character) and adding those which seems
marginally reasonable to me (although I think that "char" is pretty
silly).

I'm not sure what you expected '1'+'2' to give though, concatenation is ||
and I can't think of something meaningful to do with it.