> > You can find concrete evidence that there's indeed talk about a > bastard language, i.e. JavaScript inherits Java's rather odd semantics > of Double.MIN_VALUE (the smallest *positive* number) which is unlike > most other languages I know (yielding the smallest value). > > If the smallest double value held -Double.MAX_VALUE what would the constant holding the smallest possible double value would be called - Double.POSITIVE_SMALLEST_VALUE ? Do you suggest that Double.MAX_VALUE hold infinity ?
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