Re: Adding "numeric" type hint

Hi Christoph, On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Ryan Pallas <derokorian@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> I agree with Stanislav here, if you want to accept any type of number, > its > >> easy enough to add your own checking to do that with the wonderful > >> is_numeric. And for simplicity, make an invalidArgument method that you > can > >> call after manually checking if arguments are wrong: * > http://3v4l.org/r0qO0 > >> <http://3v4l.org/r0qO0>* Works for all versions > >> this tool runs as well. > > > > The issue is that weak mode type hint is *not* weak at all. It forces to > > have > > machine native type rather than it's data form. > > A solution for this issue has been proposed by the "Big Integer Support" > RFC which has been withdrawn. It's too late for PHP 7.0 to re-open it, > but it might be reasonable to to so for PHP 7.1. I don't think breaking a lot of code under 32 bit machines with PHP 7.0 is not good thing to do. In addition, current code does not even allow GMP object as "int". http://3v4l.org/GiklL Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net