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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-12-07 04:54:02 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-12-07 04:54:02 (GMT)
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Fix error noted by Gerrit Holl (old; had been buried in my INBOX):
sequence repitition works just fine with long integers now, so we should not say that only plain integers are allowed.
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@@ -568,9 +568,9 @@ a_expr: m_expr | aexpr "+" m_expr | aexpr "-" m_expr
The \code{*} (multiplication) operator yields the product of its
arguments. The arguments must either both be numbers, or one argument
-must be a plain integer and the other must be a sequence. In the
-former case, the numbers are converted to a common type and then
-multiplied together. In the latter case, sequence repetition is
+must be an integer (plain or long) and the other must be a sequence.
+In the former case, the numbers are converted to a common type and
+then multiplied together. In the latter case, sequence repetition is
performed; a negative repetition factor yields an empty sequence.
\index{multiplication}