Steve;<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
</div>It&#39;s weirdness, but I can&#39;t imagine a program in any language I know<br>
of actually having trouble parsing -0.0.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>Aren&#39;t situations like this the reason why we have standards for the representation of floating point numbers? I seem to remember something like that. <br></div></div><br>Ah, here it is;<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754</a><br>
<br>Negative zero is a part of that standard. Sticking to that standard, even if it&#39;s slightly weird, will probably prevent issues more than cause them, I&#39;d imagine.<br><br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br>