> Am 05.06.2016 um 00:55 schrieb Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me>: > > Hi again, > > In an attempt to be constructive, I have implemented an alternative approach > to weak scalar type selection here: > > https://github.com/krakjoe/php-src/compare/multi-types...TazeTSchnitzel:multi-types-roulette > > Where there is no exact scalar type match, this patch uses an algorithm > originally suggested by Nikita, wherein we use rand() to pick which type to > cast to. > > This is much simpler than having a type precedence matrix, and thus is easier > to remember and reason about. The choice of selection function means that no > particular use-case is privileged. Given PHP's scalar types are roughly > equivalent (after all, PHP juggles them freely), this apparently unorthodox > selection process should nonetheless produce sensible results in most cases. > > Please tell me your thoughts! > > -- > Andrea Faulds > https://ajf.me/ <https://ajf.me/> This is the holy grail I was hunting for so long!
All my computational problems can be solved by a simple rand()! In case nobody objects I'm going to merge that straight ahead into php-src 7.0 (no need for master-only, after all it's no real BC break!). Thanks a very much!!! Bob
