Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75649 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 33543 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2014 06:58:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Jul 2014 06:58:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.207 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.207 imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.207] ([192.64.116.207:43391] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 10/F4-09067-42477C35 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:58:44 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6890E8C0080; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:58:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap2.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 6A99wCIfcEsG; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:58:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5ACAC8C0075; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:58:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:58:36 +0100 Cc: Zeev Suraski , bishop@php.net, PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <4723A5BA-2616-4EA8-950C-5D4277B3B3DE@ajf.me> References: <7646A8D1-69A2-4255-B048-D3B9F28B422F@ajf.me> <37F89E54-C5B9-4E81-9D1B-660190BDB1FF@ajf.me> <9F08728B-AF74-4098-8D1D-BC21AB821168@ajf.me> To: Pierre Joye X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] intdiv() From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 17 Jul 2014, at 07:56, Pierre Joye wrote: > 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. >=20 > I am sorry but I'd to say -1 on this addition, not worse a new > operator or function for this. How on earth is adding a nearly-universal function everywhere else to = PHP=92s math library so controversial, let alone as an operator? Yes, you *can* do it with bcmath or gmp, but one should question why you = *should*, given that it=92s a horrible workaround. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/