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Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 22:38:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] rounding integers
From: davidgebler@gmail.com (David Gebler)

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On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 4:21=E2=80=AFPM Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.=
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wrote:

>
> Having recently been bitten by floor() returning a float even though the
> value that comes back is logically an int, I would be fully in support of
> "and returns an int" versions of these functions in core.
>

What about adding a third, optional parameter to round() which is a flag
(or bitmask) to specify preferred behaviour and return type? Kind of ugly,
but maybe less ugly than another new function and no BC-break, as the
default can be the existing behaviour.

-Dave

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