Hi Barney, > There are currently two proposals being discussed - native decimal scalar > type support and Support object type in BCMath > > I've been getting involved in the discussion for the BCMath proposal, but not > paying as much attention to the native decimal thread. > > But these seem like very similar things, so I'm wondering whether or not it > makes sense to do both at once. They both seem like ways to represent and > calculate with arbitrary precision decimal numbers. > > I'm not sure if they have distinct use cases. Are there some tasks where > people would likely prefer one, and different tasks where they would prefer > the other? Or should PHP internals choose just one of these options instead > of potentially releasing both? It doesn't seem like a good idea to have two > directly competing features for the same use case in one PHP release, unless > there's a reason to favor each one in a different situation. >
(I'm the proposer on the BCMath thread, so my opinion may be a bit biased.) The "areas" being discussed are certainly close. However, I believe that the goals of the proposals and the time and effort required to realize them will vary greatly. Regards. Saki
