On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > > the following produces 5 (note the extra "+"): > > hey = 2 + + 3 > print hey > > I think this should cause a syntax error instead. I kind of > understand/guess that the second "+" is interpreted as a unary (redundant) > operator relating to the following "3", and maybe that's correct. But my > gut feeling still says it's unfortunate... It may be unfortunate, but then I guess you'd have to convince Octave, Julia and R too ;)