On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 at 21:09, Rowan Tommins wrote:
> I still don't think it justifies the "mind-blowing" and "band-aid"
> hyperbole, though. It could give better errors, but the solution is still
> "never initialise decimals from floats", and that would be true whatever
> was built into PHP.
You
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 at 07:03, Rowan Tommins wrote:
> You have to load the value somehow; bcmath accepts strings directly, so
> parses the values each time, which isn't very efficient; but php-decimal
> uses strings to construct objects, as does GMP. I guess the other option
> for a decimal would
Hi Máté,
I agree with this proposal, and I will be voting yes. The function
overloads are not a big issue for PHP developers, and some are very
much in use, but the reasons you listed are convincing and the manner
in which you propose to do it should create an easy upgrade path.
I think one year
Hi Internals,
As you have possibly already experienced, overloaded signatures cause
various smaller and bigger issues, while the concept is not natively
supported by PHP. That's why I drafted an RFC which intends to phase out
the majority of overloaded function/method signatures and also forbid
th
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 at 09:18, Claude Pache wrote:
>
> This is the the description of the PHP Decimal extension, which does
> indeed the Right Thing. But BCMath (which is not PHP Decimal) does have
> “mind-blowing counter-intuitive” issues (at least in `strict_types=0` mode)
> with floats. Formall
> Le 27 avr. 2023 à 00:03, Rowan Tommins a écrit :
>
>>
>> In PHP8, passing float values
>> to BCMath may lead to issues due to type mismatch which is a
>> mind-blowing counter-intuitive issue.
>
> Far from counter-intuitive, that's an essential feature of any decimal
> implementation - as s
Hi
On 4/12/23 09:59, Tim Düsterhus wrote:
I just opened the vote for the "Make unserialize() emit a warning for
trailing bytes" RFC. The RFC contains a single vote that requires a 2/3
majority to pass. Voting runs 2 weeks until 2023-03-26 08:30 UTC.
Whoops, I forgot about that yesterday, but
