Why is it strange? You get the object which was created just before the bignum object, and this happens to be the parse tree object created by hilfe.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2003-11-06 17:27: Subject: Hilfe strangeness
Pike v7.5 release 12 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)
_next((mixed)23414325134512341234);
(1) Result: Tools.Hilfe.Expression(({ /* 8 elements */ "_next", "(", "(", "mixed", ")", "23414325134512341234", ")", ";" }))
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS