On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Zoffix Znet via RT < [email protected]> wrote: > > The reason we have a negative floating point zero at all is more due to > underlying implementations at whose level such zeros are used to signal > various exceptions. But such usage isn't needed on Perl 6 level.
IEEE supports negative zero because it is useful when working with limits of series. Are you suggesting Perl 6 should not support this usage? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
