Bug in \relative parsing?

Hi folks,
I noticed that this

\score {
  \new Staff {
    f
  \relative a'4 { c }
  }
}

behaves unexpectedly (I'm using 2.24.4): it renders f3, f3, c3 in violin
clef.
In my head, the c3 is expected, because the \relative in this case is
parsed like this I'm guessing

f \relative { a'4 } { c }

ie. an f3 in absolute mode, an a'4 in relative mode (defaulting its
reference pitch to c3), then a one-note block in absolute mode. Except that
the note rendered should be a3, not f3.

HTH,
L


-- 
Luca Fascione