On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 4:37 PM Mark Hanson <mhan...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> C# a very new > language has added the same -1 behavior, so obviously it does not cause > major problems. Can you cite references here? The major problem comes when dealing with units. When we change the time based methods to take units to remove ambiguity -1 is no longer a trivial solution. The simplest explanation for that is -1s != -1ms, so you can't simply check for -1 sentinel values. You could say that all values less than 0s are infinite but why make things like this in modern times. We have better ways to express meaningful values. -Jake
