On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > > > Why can't b be negative? > > Because the syntax is "an+b" with comments on special cases of a=0, b=0 > and negative a, but no mention of a special case of negative b. So if b > was negative and the syntax was maintained it would be "an+-b". > > Besides the negative values of b are redundant, so I expect the > exclusion of them to be deliberate. The spec says: "The a and b values must be zero, negative integers or positive integers." I'll grant you the spec is a bit poor about this. I'll look into making it better when I do the edits for our post-CR issues. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Sunday, 3 July 2005 21:45:24 UTC
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