Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:98772 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59260 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2017 17:26:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Apr 2017 17:26:03 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 137.50.187.72 oa-edu-187-72.wireless.abdn.ac.uk Received: from [137.50.187.72] ([137.50.187.72:19998] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id CF/A4-18853-7A11DE85 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:26:02 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: <5e3e3e9b-f5b9-a19e-c4cb-6af0f5985d94@beccati.com> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:25:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 137.50.187.72 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PDO Float Type From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) Hi, Matteo Beccati wrote: > a PDO::PARAM_NUMERIC const that could in fact > just be an alias for PDO::PARAM_STR for most of the drivers This is a technical solution to a documentation problem. I think it runs the risk of confusing people who do know what they're doing, and assume NUMERIC is like FLOAT. I'd suggest adding a warning to the manual instead. -- Andrea Faulds https://ajf.me/