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

[Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm not sure there is a bug here. 12.5.2 seems to say that + and - are only
> overloaded for length-specs when every argument is a length-spec. It looks
> to me like you are trying to elide that check. (I lost the original message
> but, as I recall, this started because someone complained because + didn't
> work as expected when applied to a length-spec and a non-length spec.)
> 

No, to cite 12.5.2:

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).


Its any, not every. 


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