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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:29:57 +0200
To: Alexandre Daubois <alex.daubois+php@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Add pack()/unpack() support for signed integers
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

Am 2025-09-17 09:09, schrieb Alexandre Daubois:
> I'm not sure to exactly understand what you mean. Do you propose to
> introduce < and > modifiers and deprecate some letters, if I get it
> right?

I'm proposing to introduce the `<` and `>` modifiers, following Perl's 
lead. This would then allow to deprecate e, E, g, and G in a future 
version and if / when that happens, PHP would be in sync with Perl 
again. I'm not proposing that the deprecation should happen at the same 
time, because folks should have at least one PHP version to migrate 
where the new logic is available, but the old is not yet deprecated.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus