[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37882] printf('%4d', -0) prints 0

[Michael Godfrey]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #37882 (project octave):

But, I just noticed that
x = -0;
printf('%4gn', x);
yields:

-0

So, should %d and %g produce different signs?

Oh, I just checked Matlab and the current Octave
behavior matches Matlab.  Ugh!

Someday it may be a useful idea to have a Section
in the Manual titled "Matlab nonsense not 
provided in Octave."  This behavior is a candidate.

By the way, Octave is already different from Matlab
in that in Matlab:
x = -0;
x
yields 
0

I hope that no one wants to change the behavior
of Octave to match this.


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