- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:14:42 -0700
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > 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. Based on what Boris said, why make this distinction? Generally +1 is not considered a valid integer by most number parsing libraries. And since gecko is planning on becoming more strict, why follow (part of) it's lead here? / Jonas
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