- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:19:52 +0000 (UTC)
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. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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