Hi Nikita,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Nice idea about using a special serialize_precision value for this. This
> allows to keep BC for those that have tests for particular serialize output
> or similar things.
>
> I would suggest to default serialize_precision to -1 in PHP 7 -- if people
> want the previous behavior they can still have it, but I think -1 is the
> more reasonable default as it matches what one would naturally expect.
>
> I don't see the need for having a separate setting for JSON. Having a
> dozen different float precision settings will not help anyone.
>

Thank you for your feedback.
I agree it's better if PHP7 uses 0 mode by default. I'll update the RFC.
I have things to do on this weekend. I'll try to write patch this weekend
hopefully.

Regards,

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

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