[whatwg] Plus Signs in Signed Integers

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Jul 13 20:07:49 PDT 2009


On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Smylers wrote:
>
> The algorithm for parsing signed integers does not allow an optional
> plus sign before positive integers; that is, parsing "+4" will return an
> error at step 8 of this algorithm:
> 
>   http://www.whatwg.org/html5#rules-for-parsing-integers
> 
> That is inconsistent with the algorithm for non-negative integers, which
> tolerates (and ignores) a leading plus sign (step 6):
> 
>   http://www.whatwg.org/html5#rules-for-parsing-non-negative-integers

I've made + be tolerated by the signed parser also.

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