On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> We have maintained nonstandard behavior in the past for
> compatibility reasons, so it's a fair question; however, I'm
> inclined toward the standard on this one.
In a case like this, it seems unlikely that someone would be counting
on a negative value to throw an error, so I tend to regard doing
something else as an extension of the standard rather than a deviation
from it. But I don't have strong feelings about it.
...Robert