Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> 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