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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] NAN and INF cast to int
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)



On 02/01/14 19:08, Robert Stoll wrote:
>
>
> And the other part about division by 0 yields false. I rethought it and conclude that it makes somewhat sense for a
> purely int division. However, it does not make sense for a floating point number division IMO and should be NAN or INF
> instead as suggested by IEEE 754.
> Yet, since this would be a BC break I understand that it cannot be changed in 5.x but maybe in PHP 6?
>

Hey, why not make div-by-0 with ints also yield Infinity? It's a nicer 
and more practical approach than throwing a warning, IMO, because you 
don't have to check for zero at every single division, you'll just get 
an eventual output which tells you something went wrong.

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Andrea Faulds
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