Re: [VOTE] Big Integer Support

Hey: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I should’ve done this a long time ago, but I’m going to hold a vote on this RFC. The > implementation isn’t finished, but the remaining work isn’t impossible to surmount (though help > would certainly be appreciated). RFCs can be put to vote without implementations (or so says > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/howto), so the fact the implementation is > unfinished isn’t necessarily a blocker. for such a big change, the implementation self is also important, there was some RFC accepted with "not good" implementation, which cause lots of troubles for us to maintaining . > > Putting it to a vote, finally, means I can stimulate further discussion (let’s face it, most > discussion on a given RFC happens during voting), and importantly, see how much support the RFC has > in order motivate myself to finish the implementation. > > I think this would be a useful feature for PHP. It brings PHP into line with other modern > dynamic languages in having integers of arbitrary size. It makes integer behaviour both more > intuitive and more consistent across platforms. It (finally) adds a means for handling of 64-bit > (and larger) integers in 32-bit environments. I think allowing integers to grow as needed and not > having to worry about platform-specific details is very “PHP”, as well. > from your RFC: " but obviously the implementations of anything dealing with integers may need to be changed." this sounds too much compare to the benefits it brings.. (User can use bcmath or other similar thing to deal with big int). and actually, I'd prefer this to be a extension instead of get it into core... too much changes for little gains.. Thus, I voted -1 on this. thanks > So, anyway, here’s the RFC, including the voting widget: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/bigint > > Voting starts today (2015-02-15) and ends in 10 days (2015-02-25). > > If you have any queries, please ask. > > Thanks! > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Xinchen Hui @Laruence http://www.laruence.com/