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never use a minus sign. The same unnecessary handling exists in the Perl6 code.
Also, the even entries in the second half of the output from Kotlin, Java, Go, D, and C# all fail
to trim the unnecessary trailing ".0" (as the heading says, both pretty minor points). [[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 04:21, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
:<blockquote>"When translating the Sidef code to Phix, one thing I noticed is that parse_base() never has to deal with a leading '-'"...</blockquote> I put that in there following the principle of "Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you emit."
:But you're not wrong; assuming well formed input, that line is redundant. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 13:12, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
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