Hi Christoph,

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote:

> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Ryan Pallas <derokor...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree with Stanislav here, if you want to accept any type of number,
> its
> >> easy enough to add your own checking to do that with the wonderful
> >> is_numeric. And for simplicity, make an invalidArgument method that you
> can
> >> call after manually checking if arguments are wrong: *
> http://3v4l.org/r0qO0
> >> <http://3v4l.org/r0qO0>* Works for all versions this tool runs as well.
> >
> > The issue is that weak mode type hint is *not* weak at all. It forces to
> > have
> > machine native type rather than it's data form.
>
> A solution for this issue has been proposed by the "Big Integer Support"
> RFC which has been withdrawn.  It's too late for PHP 7.0 to re-open it,
> but it might be reasonable to to so for PHP 7.1.


I don't think breaking a lot of code under 32 bit machines with PHP 7.0
is not good thing to do.

In addition, current code does not even allow GMP object as "int".
http://3v4l.org/GiklL

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net

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