Re: NAN and INF cast to int

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > > On 02/01/14 19:08, Robert Stoll wrote: >> >> >> >> And the other part about division by 0 yields false. I rethought it and >> conclude that it makes somewhat sense for a >> purely int division. However, it does not make sense for a floating point >> number division IMO and should be NAN or INF >> instead as suggested by IEEE 754. >> Yet, since this would be a BC break I understand that it cannot be changed >> in 5.x but maybe in PHP 6? >> > > Hey, why not make div-by-0 with ints also yield Infinity? It's a nicer and > more practical approach than throwing a warning, IMO, because you don't have > to check for zero at every single division, you'll just get an eventual > output which tells you something went wrong. I'm +1 to make div by zero return INF. I'm also +1 for every math "strange" operation to issue a warning, like div by zero, or else. Julien