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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:59:49 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Integer Semantics
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> On 20 Aug 2014, at 03:53, Laruence <laruence@php.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>>> Good evening,
>>>
>>> I have made an RFC which would make some small changes to how integers =
are handled, targeted at PHP 7:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/integer_semantics
>>
>> I'd like don't change the works behavior.  make it act the similar as C =
does.
>
> For some of these things the behaviour is explicitly undefined in C, mean=
ing it=E2=80=99s dangerous for us not to handle them specially, as undefine=
d behaviour seems to give compilers an unlimited license to do absolutely a=
nything at all.
>
> The rest are =E2=80=9Cimplementation-defined=E2=80=9D. While what C does =
=E2=80=9Cworks=E2=80=9D, I=E2=80=99d rather we do one thing consistently in=
stead of forcing developers to deal with the kinds of platform and compiler=
 differences tools like PHP should be abstracting.

I totally agree with Andrea here. While it made sense to map C
behavior for years, for many of us, as we all came from a C backgroud.
However it makes less and less sense lately, if at all.

Cheers,
--=20
Pierre

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