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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 13:13:26 -0800
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove hex support in numeric strings
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to propose removing support for hexadecimal strings in the
> is_numeric_string() function, in order to achieve consistency with ordinary
> integer and float casts:
>
>     https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_hex_support_in_numeric_strings
>
> This change drops a WTF in our conversion semantics and should have low BC
> impact.
>
+1, this was always a weird inconsistency and as you note, there's a
robust solution for explicitly saying that you want hex numbers to be
parsed.  Would vote yes again.

-Sara