The spec doesn't disallow this: in fact, it mentions -inf as a default lower bound on scores.
I hit upon this by accident, with a buggy output validator -- the negative score was unintended, but problemtools hid the bug from me by claiming an invalid format error with no further output.
The spec doesn't disallow this: in fact, it mentions -inf as a default lower bound on scores.
I hit upon this by accident, with a buggy output validator -- the negative score was unintended, but problemtools hid the bug from me by claiming an invalid format error with no further output.