Hi all,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Instead of continuing to use serialize_precision, which will produce
>> unnecessarily long outputs for many values, why don't we just switch to
>> using the 0 mode of zend_dtoa, i.e. to return the shortest output that is
>> still accurate if interpreted in round-to-nearest. I think this is what
>> everybody else is using when they convert floating point numbers to
>> strings. I guess we may not be able to change normal floating point
>> printing to use this, but this seems like the best mode for anything using
>> serialize_precision now and everything that should be using it (like JSON,
>> and queries, etc).
>
>
> I prefer your proposal!
> Your proposal is a lot better than now.
> Anyone has opinion for this?
>
> I'm writing the RFC and I would like to make this the first option. i.e.
> serialize_precision=0 uses "zend_dtoa 0 mode" for all data exchange
> functions (json/serialize/var_exrport. Anyone care about WDDX/XML_RPC?)
>

I wrote draft RFC.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/precise_float_value

Please comment. I would like to start RFC discussion shortly.
Thank you.

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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net

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