On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Zefram wrote: > Jan Dubois wrote: > >Well, you _could_ add a special case to the string comparison: > > That would be a mess. The better solution is for negative zero to > stringify as "0". Indeed. <not-really-serious> Or add a pragma to tree "-0" as false in boolean context: use feature "minus_zero_is_false"; print "Yes" if "-0"; would then not print anything. </not-really-serious> I'm more and more convinced that using a floating point number in boolean context is simply something you should not be doing for similar reasons that you generally are not comparing floating point numbers for equality. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next