Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal. To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2002/02/In Java, negative zero is perfectly acceptable: int xyz = -0; System.out.println(Integer.parseInt(“-0”)); System.out.println(xyz); Take THAT, Meta_Kate! 🙂 Posted in: