Why does double.Parse ignore the sign of zero?
<p>For example, in:</p>

<pre><code>bool eq = (1 / double.Parse("-0.0")) == (1 / -0.0);
</code></pre>

<p><code>eq</code> will be <code>false</code>.</p>

<p><code>double.Parse</code> would have to go through some trouble to explicitly ignore the sign for zero, even though not doing that almost never results in a problem. 
Since I need the raw representation, I had to write my own parsing function which special-cases negative zero and uses <code>double.Parse</code> for everything else.</p>

<p>That's not a big problem, but I'm really wondering why they made the decision to ignore the sign of zero, because it seems to me that not doing so wouldn't be a bad thing.</p>
