gawk: regression with unary plus

[Houder]

On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:59:30, Steven Penny wrote:
> Previously conversions could be triggered by either adding zero (+0), unary
> plus (+) or unary minus (-) [1]:
[snip]

> However now conversion only happens with adding zero and unary minus:
[snip]

> Does anyone know where this change was mentioned or why it was done?
> 
> [1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html

For those who are interested:

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/421904/regression-with-unary-plus
    (Regression with unary plus, by Steven Penny)

As suggested by Stéphane Chazelas in his response, the change in behaviour is
problably not intentional.

Modifying (i.e. extend it) the '0p_unary_plus CASE' in interpret.h, restores
the previous behaviour.

Henri


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