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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:18:42 -0500
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To: Michael Morris <dmgx.michael@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Config setting to force all math operations to
 pass through BCMath library.
From: ircmaxell@gmail.com (Anthony Ferrara)

I initially like the concept (arbitrary precision operations).

But please don't add another ini setting.  Especially one where
*logic* can change depending on the setting.  I don't want a case
where pow(2, 65)-1 will return different answers depending on the ini.
 That's just asking for problems.

Instead, perhaps a pythonic approach may be useful (storing as
int/float for small values, but auto-converting to arbitrary precision
if the int/float can't exactly represent what was
requested/computed)...  Just a thought to make it useful without the
ini complexity or performance hits.

Although this will present a significant BC break (internally, zend
engine wise), so it would probably be limited to a major release
anyway...

Just a thought...

Anthony

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Michael Morris <dmgx.michael@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_ini_bcmath_default
>
> This is the only other RFC I've been rummaging around in my head but
> hadn't brought up.
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