On 30/07/2014 04:31, Andrea Faulds wrote:
Good evening,
The intdiv RFC is put to the vote, with separate votes for the integer division
operator (%%) and intdiv function, the latter as a fallback. I would highly
encourage you to read the discussion in the “[RFC] intdiv()” thread and the
whole RFC before voting.
The vote is here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/intdiv#vote
It is opened today (2014-07-30) and ends 2014-08-06.
After speaking with some other members of AFUP (French user-group) about
this RFC, here's a short summary of our thoughts, which may sound like
an echo to the current results of the vote:
* Adding a new operator for a quite specific case seems a bit
overkill: it probably won't be used much
* Adding a new intdiv() function: why not?
Basically, adding a new operator doesn't feel OK for something that
wouldn't be used often, as it has some impact on the language itself.
But adding a new function feels more OK, as long as it solves a problem
(it does, here), as it is "only" a function, with no impact on the language.
As a sidenote: wouldn't using GMP solve this problem, by working with
infinite precision integers instead of floats?
If so and if using GMP would be a good/better idea, a note about that on
intdiv()'s manual page might prove useful for end-users?
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Pascal MARTIN
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