Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:33831 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17742 invoked by uid 1010); 7 Dec 2007 15:36:24 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17726 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2007 15:36:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Dec 2007 15:36:24 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.41.129.160 82-41-129-160.cable.ubr02.glen.blueyonder.co.uk Received: from [82.41.129.160] ([82.41.129.160:28678] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 15/00-16679-D6869574 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:36:14 -0500 Message-ID: <15.00.16679.D6869574@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:34:27 +0000 Reply-To: nrixham@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <01.E6.00959.D3E59574@pb1.pair.com> <475965C7.7060004@daylessday.org> In-Reply-To: <475965C7.7060004@daylessday.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 82.41.129.160 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Thoughts on Feature Request - Arithmetic From: nrixham@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham) Agreed, PECL or PEAR, some provision should be made, it's worth the extra few bytes of code. Thanks for the opinions Nathan Antony Dovgal wrote: > 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. >