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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 10:19:18 -0700
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To: Albert Casademont <albertcasademont@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Extension: arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic in
 PHP 7
From: rtheunissen@php.net (Rudi Theunissen)

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Yes absolutely, I haven't written tests or documentation or a release plan
yet though. I started working on this less than a week ago so just looking
for feedback and validation from internals before I spend time wrapping it
up.

On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 10:17 Albert Casademont <albertcasademont@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Looks promising! Could it be added to PECL maybe? That would make it
> easier for people to test :D
>
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 17:46, Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net> wrote:
>
>> Actually yes! You mentioned it to me 5 months ago in a thread on Reddit:
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/8fpwi4/if_php_had_a_native_decimal_type_would_you_use_it/dy6zon9/
>>
>> I'll take a close look at GMPi today and compare them objectively. :)
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:20 AM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:06 PM Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net>
>> > wrote:
>> > > I've been working on adding arbitrary precision decimal support as an
>> > > alternative to *bcmath. *I have created an extension based on
>> > *mpdecimal*,
>> > > which is what Python 3's decimal module is also based on. I haven't
>> > > released or broadcast this project yet, because I wanted to discuss
>> the
>> > API
>> > > and implementation with internals first.
>> > >
>> > Have you looked at GMPi ? https://github.com/sgolemon/gmpi
>> > It's a replacement for GMP (which includes floating point and an OOP
>> > interface).
>> >
>> > -Sara
>> >
>>
>

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