> You're making a logic insinuation here that anything C# does is good
> enough for Java.

Well I could've picked from several other languages, i.e. Ruby [http://
ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Float.html] but it just so happens that C#
is the closest younger sibling to Java.

> Is it a good name? Not really, its not always evident what it does,
> and in general a constant name should be clear without needing to read
> documentation. Also, Integer.MIN_VALUE means something entirely
> different, making it worse.

In any event, the discussion started as an attempt to show how
JavaScript inherited some "unfortunate genes" from Java. I feel that's
been at least partly accomplished.

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