Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Tom Lane wrote: >> I am kind of inclined to remove the arithmetic operators on "char" >> (+,-,*,/) in 7.4 --- they don't seem to have any real-world uses, >> and as this example illustrates, they are perfectly positioned to >> capture cases that probably ought to be errors.
> That seems to make sense. I assume that they were there so that someone > could treat it as a 1 byte integer? Presumably ... but defining a numeric type named "int1" would be a lot more sensible than overloading "char" for the purpose. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly