On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 20:01:15 GMT, Pavel Rappo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We're defining the values of MIN and MAX and they *could* be defined to be >> the negation of the other. >> The defined use case is a sentinels and the exact value is less significant. >> It just a different kind of oddity compared to twos-complement numbers that >> have their own asymmetry. > > Hm... I imagine it would be confusing if we did that. Should we ask about it > on that recent core-libs-dev discussion thread? Thinking about it more. Roger, I don't think we should define `Duration.MIN` as `Duration.MAX.negated()` now. We missed that opportunity long ago. `Duration` could've **initially** had the minimum addressable value as that. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27549#discussion_r2416324715
