Re: [VOTE][RFC] intdiv()

On 30/07/2014 04:31, Andrea Faulds wrote:

Good evening, The intdiv RFC is put to the vote, with separate votes for the integer division operator (%%) and intdiv function, the latter as a fallback. I would highly encourage you to read the discussion in the “[RFC] intdiv()” thread and the whole RFC before voting. The vote is here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/intdiv#vote It is opened today (2014-07-30) and ends 2014-08-06.

After speaking with some other members of AFUP (French user-group) about this RFC, here's a short summary of our thoughts, which may sound like an echo to the current results of the vote: * Adding a new operator for a quite specific case seems a bit overkill: it probably won't be used much * Adding a new intdiv() function: why not? Basically, adding a new operator doesn't feel OK for something that wouldn't be used often, as it has some impact on the language itself. But adding a new function feels more OK, as long as it solves a problem (it does, here), as it is "only" a function, with no impact on the language. As a sidenote: wouldn't using GMP solve this problem, by working with infinite precision integers instead of floats? If so and if using GMP would be a good/better idea, a note about that on intdiv()'s manual page might prove useful for end-users? -- Pascal MARTIN http://blog.pascal-martin.fr/ @pascal_martin