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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Change IntlChar::getNumericValue() to return something
 less horrible when the char is not numeric?
From: netmo.php@gmail.com (Net Mo)

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I've asked Sara to add the NO_NUMERIC_VALUE constant to IntlChar because it
is missing, but she suggested the method could return NULL instead.
Any of the two options is fine for me...

2015-07-08 21:45 GMT+02:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>:

> Hi!
>
> > ICU documentation:
> >
> http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/uchar_8h.html#a36982efc84143b9bb5a11bf54b86af48
> >
> > Currently the PHP function returns the U_NO_NUMERIC_VALUE constant, which
> > is set to the very weird "float(-123456789)"; basically it's a value that
> > it's certain it doesn't have an Unicode numeric character equivalent
> > counterpart.
> >
> > I would change the function to return NULL instead; what do you think?
>
> While the exact value of U_NO_NUMERIC_VALUE looks weird, nobody is going
> to use it directly, you'd be using U_NO_NUMERIC_VALUE. Comparing to it
> doesn't look wrong. So changing that to null doesn't seem to improve
> much, just introduce incompatibility with ICU.
>
> --
> Stas Malyshev
> smalyshev@gmail.com
>

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