Re: [VOTE][RFC] Integer Semantics

Hi Andrea, Shifts by negative number may make sense. (N << -1) => (N >> 1) At least receiving "false" from shift is not very pleasant. In the patch you use SIZEOF_LONG. It probably should be changed to SIZEOF_ZEND_LONG. Thanks. Dmitry. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2014, at 17:24, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote: > > >> This RFC has been put to a vote. It starts today (2014-09-14) and ends > in a week’s time (2014-09-21). > >> > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/integer_semantics#vote > > > > A few people have asked why I voted no; the only reason is that > > division by zero will return false and emit a warning. > > Integers can > > be converted to floating point numbers and dividing by zero in IEEE > > 754 is defined as INF. I would rather leave behavior undefined by > > voting no on this RFC than by defining it to a value which does not > > make sense to me. The value false will get converted to zero in any > > additional math, which is not the same as INF. > > The RFC does not touch division by zero. That was a suggestion for a > future RFC. > > I’ve now removed that section to avoid confusion. > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >