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Bug 8012 - This says "Collect a sequence of characters ... interpret the resulting sequence as a base-ten integer", whereas the signed and unsigned integers had a whole five-step loop to do precisely the same thing. They should all use the simpler phrasing, since it
Summary: This says "Collect a sequence of characters ... interpret the resulting seque...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-10-22 17:07 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-10-22 17:07:50 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#real-numbers

Comment:
This says "Collect a sequence of characters ... interpret the resulting sequence as a base-ten integer", whereas the signed and unsigned integers had a whole five-step loop to do precisely the same thing. They should all use the simpler phrasing, since it's easier to understand and verify.

Posted from: 128.232.100.177
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-10-23 07:06:24 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2009-10-23 07:07:29 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4301.
Check-in comment: Simplify the algorithms for parsing signed and unsigned integers to use subalgorithms that have since been defined.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4300&to=4301