Re: [chuck-users] negative zero

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Robert Poor wrote:

I'm troubled by ChucK's handling of negative zero.  A variable set to -0.0 is indistinguishable from a variable set to 0.0, except in printing.  This is not a problem in everyday practice, but it seems likely that it will cause trouble when you pass to an external program.

[Why would you set a variable to -0.0 in the first place?  Try this: (-3.0 % 1.0) => float bar;]

Comments? ==================== 0.0 => float foo; -0.0 => float bar;

It's weirdness, but I can't imagine a program in any language I know of actually having trouble parsing -0.0. Steve