From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-01-24T16:50:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01171] Re: Possible bug in ruby-man-1.4

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01168] Re: Possible bug in ruby-man-1.4"
    on 00/01/23, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|Well, I guess it comes down to what you mean by an integer
|literal. Right now, we have a somewhat confusing situation:
|
|  a = -2
|
|assigns '-2' directly to a
|
|  a = -2.+(3)
|
|generates  5:Fixnum, then applies -@, resulting in -5.

Agree with it.  According to the principle of less surprise, I'll
change the parser to understand UMINUS followed by digits as number.
Acutually it worked so before.  I removed that for simplicity, but
maybe it was too simple.

							matz.