Re: Lua minus null (-0)

[GrayFace <sergroj@...>]

On 06.06.2011 9:41, HyperHacker wrote:
> It is a bit strange, but I don't see the harm in showing a meaningless 
> minus sign? The alternative would be modifying tostring to do an 
> additional check, and that has its own issues: adding code to "fix" a 
> harmless "bug", not "fixing" it completely (what about string.format 
> and other places a -0 could sneak through?) causing inconsistency, 
> formatting (how to display -0.0000000000001?), and people inevitably 
> complaining when it *doesn't* show -0, to name a few.

Some additional code for tostring, string.format and other such places 
won't cause a slowdown.
I'm pretty sure -0.0000000000001 would be better displayed as 0 rather 
then -0 for tasks Lua is used for. There are people who need -0 in C, 
but I doubt there's a single person who needs it in Lua.

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