Bug, feature or limitation of erl_parse?

[Musumeci, Antonio S]

It doesn't appear to understand the "test" ++ Else shortcut for [$t,$e,$s,$t|Else]. Reason I noticed was I'm reading in terms as strings and passing them to mnesia:select. erl_parse works fine with [$t|'_'] but not "t" ++ '_'.

> S = "[$t,$e,$s,$t|'_']".
"[$t,$e,$s,$t|'_']"
> T = "\"test\" ++ '_'".
"\"test\" ++ '_'"
> [$t,$e,$s,$t|'_'] = "test" ++ '_'.
[116,101,115,116|'_']
> {ok,S2,_} = erl_scan:string(S).
{ok,[{'[',1},
     {char,1,116},
     {',',1},
     {char,1,101},
     {',',1},
     {char,1,115},
     {',',1},
     {char,1,116},
     {'|',1},
     {atom,1,'_'},
     {']',1}],
    1}
> {ok,T2,_} = erl_scan:string(T).
{ok,[{string,1,"test"},{'++',1},{atom,1,'_'}],1}
> erl_parse:parse_term(S2++[{dot,1}]).
{ok,[116,101,115,116|'_']}
> erl_parse:parse_term(T2++[{dot,1}]).
{error,{1,erl_parse,"bad term"}}