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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] NAN and INF cast to int
From: jpauli@php.net (Julien Pauli)

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

I'm +1 to make div by zero return INF.
I'm also +1 for every math "strange" operation to issue a warning,
like div by zero, or else.

Julien