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To: Jeremy Curcio <j.curcio@icloud.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Gauging Interest:RFC to add map() function
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 16:09 +0000, Jeremy Curcio wrote:
> 
> The above examples are just a few that stick out to me I'm sure that
> looking through the list of available math functions would provide a
> few more examples. Keeping these examples in mind, I don't follow the
> logic of range mapping being too easy to implement manually whenever
> it is needed to not warrant being included in core. 

The mentioned functions are very very very common math functions. Your
map() is relatively specialized.

johannes