Re: Extension: arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic in PHP 7

Yes absolutely, I haven't written tests or documentation or a release plan yet though. I started working on this less than a week ago so just looking for feedback and validation from internals before I spend time wrapping it up. On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 10:17 Albert Casademont <albertcasademont@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks promising! Could it be added to PECL maybe? That would make it > easier for people to test :D > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 17:46, Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net> wrote: > >> Actually yes! You mentioned it to me 5 months ago in a thread on Reddit: >> >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/8fpwi4/if_php_had_a_native_decimal_type_would_you_use_it/dy6zon9/ >> >> I'll take a close look at GMPi today and compare them objectively. :) >> >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:20 AM Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:06 PM Rudi Theunissen <rtheunissen@php.net> >> > wrote: >> > > I've been working on adding arbitrary precision decimal support as an >> > > alternative to *bcmath. *I have created an extension based on >> > *mpdecimal*, >> > > which is what Python 3's decimal module is also based on. I haven't >> > > released or broadcast this project yet, because I wanted to discuss >> the >> > API >> > > and implementation with internals first. >> > > >> > Have you looked at GMPi ? >> > https://github.com/sgolemon/gmpi >> > It's a replacement for GMP (which includes floating point and an OOP >> > interface). >> > >> > -Sara >> > >> >