Hi,
Marc Bennewitz wrote:
It's totally true that on casting non numeric string to integer will
result in 0 but that's a different type even if it's also a numeric type.
From my understanding PHP tries to cast from one type to another by
loosing as less information as possible. In this case I s
Hi Andrea,
Am 24.10.2016 um 15:40 schrieb Andrea Faulds:
Hi,
Marc Bennewitz wrote:
But I'm still curious why casting any non numeric string results in the
valid number float(0) where there is a special value in floating point
numbers declared to represent not a number values.
Because that's
Hi Marc,
> -Original Message-
> From: Marc Bennewitz [mailto:dev@mabe.berlin]
> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 12:56 PM
> To: PHP Internals List
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] strtod and NaN vs. zero
>
> Hi internals,
>
> On casting a non numeric value to a float in P
Hi,
Marc Bennewitz wrote:
But I'm still curious why casting any non numeric string results in the
valid number float(0) where there is a special value in floating point
numbers declared to represent not a number values.
Because that's what C's strtod() does, and it's also what (int) does
(be
Am 23.10.2016 um 21:13 schrieb Marc Bennewitz:
Am 23.10.2016 um 13:49 schrieb Niklas Keller:
2016-10-23 12:55 GMT+02:00 Marc Bennewitz mailto:dev@mabe.berlin>>:
Hi internals,
On casting a non numeric value to a float in PHP the result will be
float(0).
In PHP-7.0 an except
Am 23.10.2016 um 13:49 schrieb Niklas Keller:
2016-10-23 12:55 GMT+02:00 Marc Bennewitz mailto:dev@mabe.berlin>>:
Hi internals,
On casting a non numeric value to a float in PHP the result will be
float(0).
In PHP-7.0 an exception was introduced that on casting a string
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2016-10-23 12:55 GMT+02:00 Marc Bennewitz :
> Hi internals,
>
> On casting a non numeric value to a float in PHP the result will be
> float(0).
>
> In PHP-7.0 an exception was introduced that on casting a string
> "/\s*NaN\s*/i" will result in float(NaN).
>
> https://3v4l.org/2Xakm
>
> Wouldn't it
Hi internals,
On casting a non numeric value to a float in PHP the result will be
float(0).
In PHP-7.0 an exception was introduced that on casting a string
"/\s*NaN\s*/i" will result in float(NaN).
https://3v4l.org/2Xakm
Wouldn't it be more logical and expected to return NaN in all cases o
