Re: [RFC] Floating Point support in GMP extension

Hi! > This extracts just the gmp floating point sub-proposal from @yohgaki's > "GMP number as PHP number" RFC ( > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/gmp_number ) I have a question here: why we must keep gmp integers and gmp floats within the same object? They have different types in GMP library, PHP has different types for ints and floats, internally in PHP they would be using different code and different structures, API would be different - why have the same object at all? Also, I'm not sure how exactly "all other gmp_*() functions" are supposed to work on floats - for many of them it just make no sense (such as factorial or q/r division or modulo), for others like bit functions it technically could make sense but would probably be not useful since nobody does bit ops on floats... Maybe it would make more sense to look into what GMP library does with floats and write different function set from there? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227