From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T00:37:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Unary plus and literals

Hi,

In message "Re: Unary plus and literals"
    on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:11:07 +0900, David Majda <david@majda.cz> writes:

|The code obviously "eats" the unary plus in front of literals, so in 
|cases like "+42" no "+@" method is called. I suppose this is an 
|optimization.

|Is the described behavior and the differences between 1.8.x and trunk 
|correct or it is a bug? Thanks for clarification.

This is not a bug, misfeature at most, but this "optimization" will be
removed from 1.9 in near future.

							matz.