+3 is not a number

[ted]

On 3/1/2005 Jose Ambros-Ingerson <jose@kiubo.net> wrote:
I just discovered that
oc> a = +3
gives you a parse error.
Isn't this kind of strange?

[ted]

On 3/1/2005 Michael Hines <michael.hines@yale.edu> wrote:
Well, now that you mention it... What do you think of this:

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oc>---4
       -4
oc>----4
       4

All this is defined in the nrn/src/oc/parse.y where

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%left   '+' '-'      /* left associative, same precedence */
%left   '*' '/' '%'     /* left assoc., higher precedence */
%left   UNARYMINUS NOT
%right  '^'     /* exponentiation */
...
expr:   NUMBER
...
       | '-' expr %prec UNARYMINUS
               { TPD; $$ = $2; code(negate); PN;}

I suppose it would be possible to add a UNARYPLUS.
Then you could write things like

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---+-+++-4

I see from the above that

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!!!!4

also is valid.