From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-27T14:41:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13229] Re: -100.abs

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:13227] -100.abs"
    on 01/03/27, Roy Patrick Tan <rtan@vt.edu> writes:

|I am guessing that -100 is treated as a single integer literal rather 
|than an integer for which a minus operator has to be applied. Am I 
|correct? If so, does this not pose a readability problem?

Yes.  It's compromise between yacc rules and naturalness (for me at
least).

							matz.