[mercury-users] Proposed change to char literal syntax

[Ralph Becket]

Michael Day, Thursday,  5 October 2006:
> >The same thing happens if you have single-character function names such
> >as 'f' and '+'.
> 
> So if you say foo('+'), does the compiler consider that + can refer to 
> the character literal, and the int and float plus operators?

That's correct.  Normally this isn't a problem.  However, if you have a
type error in a large term (and multiple-clause definitions are treated 
as single terms) then you get an explosion.
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