[whatwg] several messages

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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