Re: On writing negative zero - with or without sign

James Giles wrote:

Gary Scott wrote:
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The default should probably be whatever the common behavior currently
is. That way it breaks less existing code.



The always outputting minus if the data is negative is the default.

ok, but all of my existing compilers print -0.0 as just 0.0.

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