AW: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => CompilerError

["Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)" <Christoph.Grein@eurocopter.com>]

>     1. 
>     2. function Xyz (Left, Right : in integer) return integer is
>     3. 
>     4. begin -- Xyz
>     5.     if +Left <= +Right then
>     6.        return +Left * +Right;
>                             |
>        >>> missing operand
>
>     7.     end if;
>     8. end Xyz;
>

> Forgot to add, in my modified math version, if you replace the
"+Right" 
> with "+7" which is a simple_expression it still will give an error.
And 
> because you could replace the "+7" with "-7", for negative numbers, 
> which is also a simple_expression you still get an error. This means
you 
> have found a compiler error!
>
>This needs to be reported!

Nonsense! The compiler is correct. See the syntax RM 4.4 (4-6). (This
has been properly answered already by someone else.)

A factor (6) is a primary, not a simple_expression (4).


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