RE: ORA-FO-BOOLEAN-ZERO 15.1.4 fn:boolean from Kay, Michael on 2003-07-01 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from July 2003)

From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:44:11 +0200
To: Stephen Buxton <stephen.buxton@oracle.com>, public-qt-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <DFF2AC9E3583D511A21F0008C7E62106073DCFA9@daemsg02.software-ag.de>

Yes. The wording is carefully chosen: 
*	
A singleton numeric value that is numerically equal to zero

This covers negative and positive zero, and all numeric data types.

Perhaps the spec should spell this out.

Michael Kay

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Buxton [mailto:stephen.buxton@oracle.com] 
Sent: 30 June 2003 18:47
To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Subject: ORA-FO-BOOLEAN-ZERO 15.1.4 fn:boolean


Functions and Operators, Section 15.1.4 fn:boolean <fn:boolean>  
Does this function return false if the singleton numeric value is +0 or -0 ?

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