Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal: Arbitrary precision native scalar type

[Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]]

On 28 April 2024 07:47:40 GMT-07:00, Robert Landers <landers.rob...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

>I'm not so sure this could be implemented as an extension, there just
>isn't the right hooks for it.

The whole point of my email was that "this" is not one single feature, but a 
whole series of them. Some of them can be implemented as an extension right 
now; some could be implemented as an extension by adding more hooks which would 
also be useful for other extensions; some would need changes to the core of the 
language.

If the aim is "everything you could possibly want in a decimal type", it 
certainly can't be an extension; if the aim is "better support for decimals", 
then it possibly can.

Regards,
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]