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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.1
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On 2/24/2016 2:11 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> Furthermore, if PHP developers find floating-point confusing and are
> genuinely surprised that 0.1 cannot be represented in binary exactly,
> then perhaps they should go and learn about what floating-point numbers=

> do, rather than na=C3=AFvely continuing on thinking they're decimals th=
anks
> to PHP lying to them! It is not the job of the language to try and hide=

> that floats are imprecise from programmers.
>=20

+1 for removing the options and on the RFC. I have to deal with float
comparisons and BIGINT being cast to (int) in PHP every day and people
simply do not get it. The language should be brutal when it comes to
these things and warn, throw exceptions, whatever. :P

--=20
Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger


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