Re: [RFC] Remove hex support in numeric strings
| From: | Mike Willbanks | Date: | Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:23:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Remove hex support in numeric strings | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi internals!
>
> I'd like to propose removing support for hexadecimal strings in the
> is_numeric_string() function, in order to achieve consistency with ordinary
> integer and float casts:
>
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_hex_support_in_numeric_strings
>
> This change drops a WTF in our conversion semantics and should have low BC
> impact.
>
>
HUGE +1 here. We commonly run into this WTF and becomes a cause for all
sorts of logic errors :)