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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Config setting to force all math operations to
 pass through BCMath library.
From: admacedo@gmail.com (Daniel Macedo)

Michael, I'm with Anthony, in that you shouldn't change behaviour of
this nature with an ini setting.
I would bring more pain than what it takes away.

This is one of those gotchas that everyone comes across, like you noted.
The main issue is that floating point arithmetic != real number
arithmetic; and bc functions do solve the issue, but make for some
ugly code in complex operations...

Since Anthony mentioned Python, maybe the discussion should be if PHP
should/could support decimal like Python does
http://docs.python.org/library/decimal
Now that would be something interesting to see discussed!!