What the Duration of negative Infinity mean?

[Martin Sladecek]

Is there a reason why we support negative values in Duration at all? 
Maybe we should throw IllegalArgumentException when some negative value 
is set in one of the factory methods.

-Martin

On 01/31/2013 12:22 AM, Richard Bair wrote:
> http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-23951
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> I recently added to ScheduledService, and it supported all the boundary conditions (isIndefinite, isUnknown) of a Duration. Right now NEGATIVE_INFINITY is not handled at all in Duration. POSITIVE_INFINITY maps to isIndefinite and NaN maps to isUnknown.
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> It seems like NEGATIVE_INFINITY should also cause isIndefinite to return true. Some code (including mine) was assuming isIndefinite was positive, but that would not now necessarily be the case.
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> Thoughts?
>
> Richard