Re: rand(), mt_rand() and limits

Hi Yasuo, > On 12 Jan 2015, at 00:55, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > It works, but I prefer to have procedural API also (and OO API if it is needed.) > I like multi paradigm programming language. I don’t see the point of a “procedural API” here, it’d just be a set of thin wrappers around the OOP API. Multi-paradigm means actually providing different approaches. Every time PHP has had both a “procedural” and “OOP” API so far, it’s been nothing of the sort, the “procedural” API has been the OOP one in disguise. There is zero functional difference between $foo->bar($baz, $qux); and foo_bar($foo, $baz, $qux); and we should stop pretending there is one. Are people seriously scared off by the syntax of “OOP” APIs or something? I just don’t get it. Surely it is not hard to explain that mysql_query and $mysqli->query are exactly the same thing?! > BTW, difference between 32bit and 64bit platforms would not be a problem > as long as it is documented. It’s not necessarily a “problem”, but I don’t see why 64-bit integers shouldn’t be properly supported on 64-bit systems. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/