Re: unsinged integer

Hey Pierre, > On 17 Jan 2015, at 05:56, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > > It looks to me like yet another can of worms (how do you deal with > conversions, mixed operations, etc. it adds a lot of special cases) > with little benefits. The conversions are trivial and there are no operations to implement. The only "support" added would be one more zend_parse_parameters option. > 32bit environments are dying species. There are > ways to support LFS without that as well (while I doubt the effort is > worth it). So if I'd to choose whether PHP should support unsigned > integer, my gut feeling right now is no, it should not. This wouldn't be unsigned integer support though, it'd just be a conversion mechanism. Also, it has some use beyond 32-but systems. On 64-bit, it would be useful for, e.g. pack() and unpack(). Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/