Re: Proposal: native decimal scalar type support
| From: | Calvin Buckley | Date: | Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:18:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: native decimal scalar type support | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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You’re going to likely have this with database as well - at least ODBC presents decimals as
strings, because they can’t be represented as a C type (without turning it into a struct of some
sort).
> On Apr 26, 2023, at 9:23 AM, Alexander Pravdin <alex.pravdin@interi.co> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 at 20:52, Benjamin Morel <benjamin.morel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For what it’s worth, this is already solved in userland:
>> https://github.com/brick/math
>
> When I checked the sources, the first I saw was:
>
>> final class BigInteger extends BigNumber
>> {
>> private string $value;
>
> It also converts to strings back and forth which can not be as
> performant as native calculations and still is (with respect to the
> authors) yet another band-aid over the missing core functionality. I
> know that there are workarounds, but my proposal is about native
> support.
>
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