Re: [RFC] intdiv()

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > > > Both of those are likely not to be installed on most systems. Why do > > Why not? bcmath is in core since forever and has no external > requirements, gmp builds practically everywhere too. AFAIR all distros > have it. > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect > SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > While a practical argument can certainly be made that existing solutions can fit the examples OP cited, I don't think that takes away from the underlying principle of the argument: That there's no reason *not* to include a basic integer division in PHP. It's never made sense to me why it wasn't included. Rather than an intdiv() function, though, I wonder if an operator would be a better approach. Some languages I've seen that use / as the division operator will use a \ as the integer division operator. --Kris