Re: [DRAFT][RFC] Big Integer Support

On 26 Jun 2014, at 12:15, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 26 Jun 2014, at 01:04, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > >> I’m less concerned about whether bigints become string keys or preserve their int-ness, >> as the difference to the end-user is much lesser. If I did add support for bigint keys, >> I’d probably just do so by storing them as strings and converting to bigint on output. > > The difference is quite noticeable actually. > > for example, http://docs.php.net/array_merge > > “If the input arrays have the same string keys, then the later value for that key will > overwrite the previous one. If, however, the arrays contain numeric keys, the later value will not > overwrite the original value, but will be appended.” Ooh, good catch. I guess I’ll have to look into whether bigint keys are possible, then. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/