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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:45:50 +0300
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Internal operator overloading and GMP improvements
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikita Popov [mailto:nikita.ppv@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:15 PM
> To: Dmitry Stogov
> Cc: PHP internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Internal operator overloading and GMP
> improvements
>
> If there is no more feedback on the RFC, then I'll start voting in a day
or two.

I would add that the purpose of this feature would be exclusive to
extensions that implement mathematical concepts, where the operators are
well defined.  In other words, arbitrary precision math, vectors,
matrices, etc. - yes;  Incrementing or decrementing a picture object to
change the white balance - no.

Zeev