Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76844 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25840 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2014 19:29:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Aug 2014 19:29:38 -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 198.187.29.245 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.245 imap11-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [198.187.29.245] ([198.187.29.245:56182] helo=imap11-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 03/B1-06800-2ABE8F35 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:29:38 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548618800EC; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:29:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap11.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap11.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id HhGQk7LE26Rt; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:29:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (05439dda.skybroadband.com [5.67.157.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17EBC8800D5; Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:29:32 -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: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:29:30 +0100 Cc: Pierre Joye , Rasmus Lerdorf , PHP internals list Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <27CDAA74-FA13-43D3-809B-6F56D76AC5DE@ajf.me> References: <53F7F6ED.1050609@lerdorf.com> <53F82F16.3030601@lerdorf.com> <53F832F0.7010601@lerdorf.com> <53F8C3F2.1090009@lerdorf.com> To: Kris Craig X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Better type names for int64 RFC From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 23 Aug 2014, at 20:19, Kris Craig wrote: > I have a quick question for the people debating this issue: Aside = from the > dispute over whether or not it's necessary / unimportant, are there = any > pressing reasons *not* to implement the changes that Pierre is = advocating? > I.e. would it break anything, waste a large amount of time, make the = code > harder to maintain, etc? Or is it just that you don't think it's = worth > doing? I can think of two: 1. It breaks most extensions out there, perhaps unnecessarily. 2. If bigints are implemented, we=92d have to rename everything again. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/