Req #71306 [ReO->Csd]: Remove Division by zero warning from "/" operator

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71306&edit=1 ID: 71306 Updated by: nikic@php.net Reported by: hungry dot rahly at gmail dot com Summary: Remove Division by zero warning from "/" operator -Status: Re-Opened +Status: Closed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: irrelevant PHP Version: irrelevant -Assigned To: +Assigned To: nikic Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This has been changed to throw DivisionByZeroError in PHP 8. fdiv() is available to perform a silent division. See https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_warnings. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-03-22 20:14:13] ajf@php.net Interestingly fmod() doesn't produce a warning here, so if we got rid of the warning for / then we'd bring the two into alignment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-03-10 13:08:16] axiac dot ro at gmail dot com It would be great to have this behaviour (who throws the exception and who doesn't) explained in the documentation of the DivisionByZeroError exception. I submitted a patch on the documentation site that adds this information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-01-09 00:24:18] yohgaki@php.net Make this a change request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-01-08 00:49:20] hungry dot rahly at gmail dot com Then a removal of the warning would be best, because with the warning, you are saying there is a problem, when in fact, there isn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-01-08 00:43:06] bwoebi@php.net This indeed is expected behavior; the only possible thing eventually subject to change in future is whether the warning will be removed. But a DivisionByZeroError is definitely not suitable here as divisions by zero are handled like floating point divisions. (Yielding ±INF or NaN) Just for integer divisions (intdiv) and modulo, there's no valid result, hence an exception is then thrown (instead of false like before). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71306 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71306&edit=1