Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:33830 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14504 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Dec 2007 15:25:00 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14489 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2007 15:25:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2007 15:25:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=tony@daylessday.org; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=tony@daylessday.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain daylessday.org designates 89.208.40.236 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: tony@daylessday.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 89.208.40.236 mail.daylessday.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [89.208.40.236] ([89.208.40.236:52619] helo=daylessday.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 1E/B8-00959-BC569574 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:24:59 -0500 Received: from [192.168.3.87] (unknown [212.42.62.198]) by daylessday.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE0364018A; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:24:56 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <475965C7.7060004@daylessday.org> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:24:55 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Zakhlestin CC: nrixham@gmail.com, internals@lists.php.net References: <01.E6.00959.D3E59574@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Thoughts on Feature Request - Arithmetic From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal) On 07.12.2007 18:05, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > I doubt this is needed in core, but sounds "ok" for an extension. Yes, I'm sure a simple extension using re2c to parse the expressions would be gladly accepted into PECL. I don't see any need for this in the core, though. > Also, I believe, quite a decent version of this can be written in php > (think PEAR) This could be an option either. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal