Re: Proposal: Arbitrary precision native scalar type
| From: | Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] | Date: | Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:18:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: Arbitrary precision native scalar type | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Groups: | php.internals |
| Request: | Send a blank email to internals+get-123231@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
On 28 April 2024 07:47:40 GMT-07:00, Robert Landers <landers.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm not so sure this could be implemented as an extension, there just
>isn't the right hooks for it.
The whole point of my email was that "this" is not one single feature, but a whole series
of them. Some of them can be implemented as an extension right now; some could be implemented as an
extension by adding more hooks which would also be useful for other extensions; some would need
changes to the core of the language.
If the aim is "everything you could possibly want in a decimal type", it certainly
can't be an extension; if the aim is "better support for decimals", then it possibly
can.
Regards,
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]