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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:56:19 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
Cc: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>, bishop@php.net, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] intdiv()
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

Hi Andrea,

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> On 17 Jul 2014, at 07:29, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>
>> From debating whether it's worth it to add a new function for an
>> not-so-commonly-used-operation-to-say-the-least, we're now seriously
>> considering adding a new language level operator?  Really?
>
> Is it *really* not that common? I can think of several use-cases off the =
top of my head:
>
> * Time (actually pretty common in web apps, though we have a DateTime cla=
ss)
> * Splitting into rows and columns
> * Pagination
> * Currency (you can=E2=80=99t, for example, represent the full number of =
BTC in circulation in BTC's base unit without using an integer of beyond 53=
-bits, and it=E2=80=99s common practise to use *fixed-point* arithmetic her=
e)
> * Nearest-neighbour scaling
> * Most likely other ones (these are just what I thought of immediately)
>
> Also, while ** is great for some applications, it=E2=80=99s not going to =
be used much by others. Is the same not true of an integer division operato=
r?


The rare cases where I had to do that, I relied on bcmath or gmp. Yes,
I needed some extra ops to actually achieve what this RFC proposes but
it is good enough. The new ops overloading for extension simplifies
that a lot as well.

I am sorry but I'd to say -1 on this addition, not worse a new
operator or function for this.


Cheers,
--=20
Pierre

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