Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:102781 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 76829 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2018 23:10:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jul 2018 23:10:09 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.230.241.5 c-05f1e655.79-4-64736c10.bbcust.telenor.se Received: from [85.230.241.5] ([85.230.241.5:5763] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 58/E2-57182-05E864B5 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:10:09 -0400 Message-ID: <58.E2.57182.05E864B5@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net References: <38809703-3aa1-34cf-82b9-019ee8788cb9@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:10:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 85.230.241.5 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] abolish narrow margins From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hey Sara, Sara Golemon wrote: > > I don't remember the specifics about integer semantics (which fell > precisely on 2/3 and thus would have failed the +1 check), but again > I'll offer than perhaps both needed more discussion, and maybe > shouldn't have passed. *shrug* > > -Sara > 2/3+1 is silly, though. 2/3 already means there's twice as many agreeing as disagreeing, having +1 doesn't serve the tie-breaking function there that it does for 50%+1. But that was indeed a knife-edge RFC, it was actually saved by someone chosing to vote Yes at the last minute. -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/