Wouldn't be more efficient to do the following, assuming that the full Java
compilation chain respects the trickiness of 0 vs -0:
if (d == 0.0) {
d=0.0 // Jam -0 == +0 to +0, per
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#function-string
}
Division's plenty more expensive than assigning a constant, especially on
platforms that lack hardware FP division.
David
On 2013-06-07, at 2:03 AM, huizhe wang <huizhe.w...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Aleksej,
>
> According to XPath spec, both positive and negative zero are converted to the
> string 0, so it seems doesn't matter. But if you want to detect the negative
> zero, you may do the following:
> if (d == 0.0 && 1/d < 0.0) {
> d=0.0
> }
>
> Recognizing that (-0.0 == 0.0), and (1/(-0.0) == -Infinity).
>
> -Joe
