[whatwg] several messages
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Sun Mar 23 17:19:52 PDT 2008
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Paul Waring wrote:
> On 23/03/2008, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > > Isn't that the description of a valid positive integer? If that term is
> > > not used or defined yet, why not?
> >
> > Because "positive" is confusing to people. Some people (including me)
> > think that 0 is positive.
>
> I'm fairly sure that there are also some people out there who argue that
> you can have both -0 and +0, and these are two different numbers.
Sure, my point is just that we should avoid such confusion in the spec.
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