Hello --

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Dat Nguyen wrote:

>
> a = 0                # => 0
>
> a+ 1                 # => 1
>
> a++ 1               # => 1
>
> a+++ 1             # => 1
>
> a+ ++++++ 1   # => 1
>
> a + --- 3           #=>


I get -3 there.


> a + *** 3         #=> SyntaxError: compile error
> (irb):28: parse error
>
> Why?


What would you expect that last one to be?


David

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