<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Joe Hurd <<a href="mailto:joe@gilith.com">joe@gilith.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi Ramana, I actually went back and forth on this one, and previous versions of the article format asked for nonnegative integers. All of the OpenTheory tools I've implemented only write articles with nonnegative integers (though they should still be able to read articles with negative integers. </blockquote><div> Yeah that's the issue: it complicates what proper article readers have to do. Readers I've written would fail to handle negative integers... but I guess I'll wait for such an article to appear before worrying much. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> However, I eventually settled on integers just because they're a more natural(!) concept in programming languages and thus a little easier to explain in the spec, and the only thing they're used for is a type of key in the object dictionary. Cheers, Joe <div><div class="h5"> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Ramana Kumar <<a href="mailto:ramana.kumar@gmail.com">ramana.kumar@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Is the virtual machine supposed to be able to process negative numbers? > The article file format seems to allow a leading "-" for a decimal integer > command. > But I don't think any other commands would make use of negative integers; I > think it's a mistake to allow them. > > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > opentheory-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:opentheory-users@gilith.com">opentheory-users@gilith.com</a> > <a href="http://www.gilith.com/mailman/listinfo/opentheory-users" target="_blank">http://www.gilith.com/mailman/listinfo/opentheory-users</a> > _______________________________________________ opentheory-users mailing list <a href="mailto:opentheory-users@gilith.com">opentheory-users@gilith.com</a> <a href="http://www.gilith.com/mailman/listinfo/opentheory-users" target="_blank">http://www.gilith.com/mailman/listinfo/opentheory-users</a> </blockquote></div>