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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:22:47 +0900
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Supporting object types in BCMath
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To: php internals <internals@lists.php.net>
From: saki@sakiot.com (Saki Takamachi)

Hi internals,

BCMath currently only has procedural functions. This is a bit unwieldy for s=
ome design patterns and I came up with the idea of =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8Bsupport=
ing object types like mysqli.

Yet another idea is to also support immutable objects, like DateTime.

e.g.
```
$num1 =3D new BcNum('1.235');
$num1imm =3D new BcNumImmutable('1.235');
$num2 =3D new BcNum('2.001');

$num1result =3D $num1->add($num2);
$num1immResult =3D $num1imm->add($num2);

$num1->getValue(); // '3.236'
$num1result->getValue(); // '3.236'

$num1imm->getValue(); // '1.235'
$num1immResult->getValue(); // '3.236'
```

The reason why the class name is not "BCNum" is because it needs to follow t=
he current PHP naming convention. As an example, the class name of a PDO sub=
class has a name such as "PdoOdbc".

I look forward to your feedback.

Regards.

Saki=