On 03.01.2019 at 02:19, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > If this is part of a data pipeline, the difference between 1,500 and > 1.500 can be huge (about 1000 times ;). With luck, there would be unit > tests, so instead of broken bank account we'd have broken unit tests, > but we all know how unit test coverage tends to lag behind... > Number formatting difference may be a funny quirk in an average website > context, but could be absolutely disastrous in scientific or financial > application context.
Using floats for currency calculations may have more subtle issues. And for scientific applications, one may not want to have echo 123456789012345678.9; // 1,2345678901235E+17 -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
