Re: [OpenJade] Bugfix for +/- vs. length-specs

[Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> >    On the contrary, the standard is quite clear.  The description of
> > the basic arithmetic operators from 12.5.2 is:
> >
> >       These procedures behave in the same way as their counterparts on
> >       quantities, except that they shall return a length-spec if any <---
> >       of their arguments is a length-spec (as opposed to just a length).
> 
>   You're right; I was looking at the signatures above that paragraph. The
> ones for + and - are not consistent with this description.
> 

If you look up even higher, you'll notice that they *are* consistent,
since:


Whenever a value of type length-spec is required, a length (a quantity of
dimension 1) may always be used. 



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