Re: Adding "numeric" type hint
| From: | Christoph Becker | Date: | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:10:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Adding "numeric" type hint | ||
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Hi Yasuo,
Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> 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 RFC which has been withdrawn.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.
I don't disagree, but for better or worse this ship has sailed: the
scheduled feature freeze for PHP 7.0 has been weeks ago. See also the
respective discussion in
<http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=143022755119608>.
--
Christoph M. Becker