nice case for being more explicit and use parse* instead of conversion 
magic sometimes :D 

Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2013 03:31:21 UTC+1 schrieb Aseem Kishore:
>
> Found the issue -- indeed a bug fix:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2240
>
> Sorry for the false alarm! But hopefully a useful heads-up for the Node 
> community.
>
> Aseem
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Aseem Kishore 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Safari and Firefox also seem to return NaN for this. So perhaps the bug 
>> in V8 was *not* returning them in the first place, and this is just a 
>> (breaking) bug *fix*.
>>
>> It's interesting that -0xC8 is a valid number in all this JS engines 
>> (equivalent to -200), but converting a *string* of that number returns NaN. 
>> Anyone have any idea why?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Aseem
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Aseem Kishore 
>> <[email protected]<javascript:>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> It seems that converting a negative hexadecimal string to a number, 
>>> using the unary + operator, has broken in Node 0.9.
>>>
>>> Node 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8:
>>>
>>> > +'-0xC8'
>>> -200
>>>
>>> Node 0.9:
>>>
>>> > +'-0xC8'
>>> NaN
>>>
>>> Converting positive hexadecimal strings like this continues to work 
>>> properly.
>>>
>>> Chrome stable also behaves like this (returning NaN for negative 
>>> strings), so I'm guessing this is a V8 issue, but just wanted to share it 
>>> here too in case this is known. Is this a by-design change?
>>>
>>> Thanks much!
>>>
>>> Aseem
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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