- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:01:54 -0700
- To: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
- Cc: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, www-style@w3.org
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:39 AM, François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr> wrote: > | (It there a convention in English or in specs that "positive" means > | "strictly positive" rather than "positive or zero"?) > > This was discussed a while back and, in English, the definition of > 'positive' excludes zero (to the contrary of French & Dutch definition). To > refer to 'strictly positive or null' the wording in use is 'non-negative' if > I remember correctly. Given that the last several editors of MQ3 were French and Dutch, my hypothesis that it was just sloppy wording, and not actually intended to exclude 0, seems to be well-supported. ^_^ ~TJ
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