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Re: [css3-selectors] :nth-child issues

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:17:02 -0500
Message-ID: <dd0fbad0910201517n105ec3a0i2461f1207b43b9be@mail.gmail.com>
To: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net> wrote:
> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> is, pedantically speaking, incorrect since "-0" is not an integer; and
>>> more importantly, from the following:
>>
>> Why is -0 not an integer?
>
> Because the set of integers is precisely ...,-2,-1,0,1,2,... and its
> elements do not have aliases.

Anne already answered you with a quote, but more directly, what do you
mean "its elements do not have aliases".  -0 is definitely an integer
equivalent to 0.  0 is the only number with multiple representations
in the integers.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:17:54 UTC

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