[PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Hello @Stephen Reay, yes I have that in my, I was thinking about reusing the `throw` keyword and re-contextualizing it à la use function handle(int $cmd, ...$args) : int throw(legit, error) /* Throws only those else triggers runtime error */ { return -1; } function handle(int $

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Stephen Reay
> On 4 Apr 2019, at 03:29, M. W. Moe wrote: > > Thanks! > >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 1:24 PM G. P. B. wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I don't really see the point of it as you self said this wouldn't add a >> runtime check, so in what is it different to a comment? >> More so reusing ! for this wi

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Permit trailing whitespace in numeric strings

2019-04-03 Thread Andrea Faulds
Nikita Popov wrote: I'm always a fan of making things stricter, but think that in this particular case there are some additional considerations we should keep in mind. 1. What is more important to me here than strictness is consistency. Either both " 123" and "123 " are numeric, or neither a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Thanks! On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 1:24 PM G. P. B. wrote: > Hello, > > I don't really see the point of it as you self said this wouldn't add a > runtime check, so in what is it different to a comment? > More so reusing ! for this will, in my opinion, just lead to confusion as > people will think it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread G. P. B.
Hello, I don't really see the point of it as you self said this wouldn't add a runtime check, so in what is it different to a comment? More so reusing ! for this will, in my opinion, just lead to confusion as people will think it negates the function, this is what I would expect it to do at first

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Rowan Collins
On 03/04/2019 20:31, M. W. Moe wrote: the commenting section suggestion was some kind of decoy or trap; it does not address the original request and its scope Perhaps you could clarify what that scope is, then. As I say, I'm not clear what the difference is between the proposed syntax and a c

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Hello, you are very kind and trying hard but that's not the topic; the commenting section suggestion was some kind of decoy or trap; it does not address the original request and its scope; what's behind is more fundamental; I may have a polite discussion and argument with people; not bulls, they b

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Rowan Collins
On 03/04/2019 18:13, M. W. Moe wrote: > The argument sits there. > > function handle(int $cmd, ...$arg) : int /* throw */ > function !handle(int $cmd, ...$arg) : int The first example is unambiguous, easy to understand by anyone with a basic knowledge of the language, easy to spot when reading

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Hello, quick commenting usually ends up in a `circus`; either you enforce extra qualifiers in term of signature or you don't encourage it you seems not having the experience of working on the same code base with basically literally dozen of people which can at some point intervene; this is reality

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Rowan Collins
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 17:52, M. W. Moe wrote: > not documenting at first is not really a question of laziness or so, as > things are still moving around > you absolutely need this agility; a good design layout between theory and > stable state will refactored > discussed a thousand times; that w

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
The argument sits there. function handle(int $cmd, ...$arg) : int /* throw */ function !handle(int $cmd, ...$arg) : int On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:10 AM M. W. Moe wrote: > Hello, > > yes this is very true, but still foreign to the language construct; empty > contextual indicators it's what > we

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Hello, yes this is very true, but still foreign to the language construct; empty contextual indicators it's what we usually do in C and assembly (it has no cost) especially on extra sensitive code to make it short. On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:00 AM Claude Pache wrote: > > > > Le 3 avr. 2019 à 18:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Claude Pache
> Le 3 avr. 2019 à 18:52, M. W. Moe a écrit : > > Hello, > > not documenting at first is not really a question of laziness or so, as > things are still moving around > you absolutely need this agility; a good design layout between theory and > stable state will refactored > discussed a thous

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Stijn Peeters
I think the issue here is that there is no functional difference between an exclamation mark prefix and a docblock attribute, and the latter has the advantage of being more explicit, not requiring changes to the language syntax itself, and being an already-existing standard.  Of course things m

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Hello, not documenting at first is not really a question of laziness or so, as things are still moving around you absolutely need this agility; a good design layout between theory and stable state will refactored discussed a thousand times; that what I expect from engineers; filling the gaps betw

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Rowan Collins
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 17:27, M. W. Moe wrote: > yes this is very true; but usually on complex design with a lot of folks > working on it you start coding before documenting; > If it's just syntax that doesn't change behaviour, it's really just documentation anyway, and if people are so desperat

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Hello, yes this is very true; but usually on complex design with a lot of folks working on it you start coding before documenting; I was thinking like c++ `nothrow` identifie (I do know does more than informal), I am the kind of people who like languages which are explicit before any documentation

Re: [PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread Sara Golemon
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 11:07 AM M. W. Moe wrote: > I have a quick question before any formal proposal; would it be complex to > add an exclamation mark indicatorin front a function identifier to indicate > that function throws; like the nullable question mark for types however > without any runt

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Sara Golemon
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 4:52 AM Benjamin Morel wrote: > I just used PHP_FLOAT_MIN for the first time, and was surprised that it is > the smallest **positive** number representable. Is this expected? > > This is unlike PHP_INT_MIN, which is the absolute smallest representable > integer, and as such

[PHP-DEV] Question about adding !function_identifier

2019-04-03 Thread M. W. Moe
Hello people, I have a quick question before any formal proposal; would it be complex to add an exclamation mark indicatorin front a function identifier to indicate that function throws; like the nullable question mark for types however without any runtime check something like a pure syntax indic

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Joe Watkins
Thanks for explain. Cheers Joe On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 14:40, Rowan Collins wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 13:33, Benjamin Morel > wrote: > > > PHP_FLOAT_MIN (float) > > > Smallest representable POSITIVE floating point number. If you need the > > > smallest representable floating point number, u

[PHP-DEV] PHP 7.4 segfaults

2019-04-03 Thread Matteo Beccati
Hi dmitry, internals, As I wrote somewhere else, I've finally been able to find time to update the Bamboo instance I've been using during the past few years to run daily PHP builds, run their test suites and use them to run test suites of few popular open source projects as I've been doing sin

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Rowan Collins
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 13:33, Benjamin Morel wrote: > PHP_FLOAT_MIN (float) > > Smallest representable POSITIVE floating point number. If you need the > > smallest representable floating point number, use - PHP_FLOAT_MAX. > > Available as of PHP 7.2.0. > I'd avoid the word "smallest". PHP_FLOAT_

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Claude Pache
> Le 3 avr. 2019 à 11:51, Benjamin Morel a écrit : > > Hi internals, > > I just used PHP_FLOAT_MIN for the first time, and was surprised that it is > the smallest **positive** number representable. Is this expected? > > This is unlike PHP_INT_MIN, which is the absolute smallest representable

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Benjamin Morel
> > It really don't make much sense: > var_dump( PHP_FLOAT_MIN < 0 ); > var_dump( PHP_INT_MIN < 0 ); I quite agree that this is an inconsistency, but I guess that it's here to stay now for BC reasons. What we can do is fix the doc. > 2.2250738585072E-308 > This is negative. It isn't, it is a

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Côme Chilliet
Le mercredi 3 avril 2019, 13:47:55 CEST Joe Watkins a écrit : > 2.2250738585072E-308 > > This is negative. > > Cheers > Joe No it’s not. It’s positive and close to 0. Côme -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

2019-04-03 Thread Pierre Joye
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 7:40 PM Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > Den fre. 22. mar. 2019 kl. 15.26 skrev Kalle Sommer Nielsen >: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-ext-interbase > > Given the feedback, the RFC only targets the ext/interbase extension > to be bundled and moved to PECL. >

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Michael Wallner
On 03/04/2019 12:27, Diogo Neves wrote: > It really don't make much sense: > > > var_dump( PHP_FLOAT_MIN < 0 ); > var_dump( PHP_INT_MIN < 0 ); > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:52 AM Benjamin Morel > wrote: > >> Hi internals, >> >> I just used PHP_FLOAT_MIN for the first time, and was surprised t

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Joe Watkins
2.2250738585072E-308 This is negative. Cheers Joe On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 12:27, Diogo Neves wrote: > It really don't make much sense: > > > var_dump( PHP_FLOAT_MIN < 0 ); > var_dump( PHP_INT_MIN < 0 ); > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 10:52 AM Benjamin Morel > wrote: > > > Hi internals, > > > > I j

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Diogo Neves
It really don't make much sense: wrote: > Hi internals, > > I just used PHP_FLOAT_MIN for the first time, and was surprised that it is > the smallest **positive** number representable. Is this expected? > > This is unlike PHP_INT_MIN, which is the absolute smallest representable > integer, and a

[PHP-DEV] PHP_FLOAT_MIN is positive

2019-04-03 Thread Benjamin Morel
Hi internals, I just used PHP_FLOAT_MIN for the first time, and was surprised that it is the smallest **positive** number representable. Is this expected? This is unlike PHP_INT_MIN, which is the absolute smallest representable integer, and as such is negative: echo PHP_INT_MIN; // -922337203685