On Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:13 AM David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM Chris BSomething <xpusostomos(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> That sounds like a lot of words to justify an error that could be caught
>> at parse time, that is actually never caught at all. It seems to me that
>> whatever type is inferred from a long constant string, it won't fit into a
>> char... At least not without casting it. And therefore an error should come
>> out.
>>
>
> I thought you were trying to convince people to modify the documentation?
> This reads more like wanting to hack the parser to teach it forbidden
> knowledge.
>
Hack? Forbidden knowledge? What an odd comment.
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