Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75899 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10597 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2014 22:15:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jul 2014 22:15:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:45925] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CF/45-21666-972EEC35 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:15:21 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC6E2400DA; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:15:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id uhT4q8qedZBA; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:15:18 -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 0DF772400E7; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:15:08 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <53CEC7B5.6090502@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:12:41 +0100 Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <93E1CC84-5CCC-4964-83BC-44E6C136B831@ajf.me> References: <53CEC194.5090307@marc-bennewitz.de> <53CEC7B5.6090502@gmail.com> To: Rowan Collins X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] unsinged integer From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 22 Jul 2014, at 21:21, Rowan Collins wrote: > More seriously, UnsignedInt might go nicely alongside Andrea's = BigInts=85 Bigints kinda remove the need for unsigned ints as you=92d be able to = use big signed integers of any size. I also really don=92t want unsigned = int because it makes integer semantics more confusing and you=92re = splitting integers into two different kinds, unlike bigints which are an = implementation detail (there is still just one =93integer=94 type) for = the most part. I really, really don=92t think this proposal is a good idea. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/