Re: Re: Adding "numeric" type hint

On May 11, 2015 6:01 PM, "Arvids Godjuks" <arvids.godjuks@gmail.com> wrote: > > пн, 11 Май 2015, 10:21, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>: > > Hi all, > > > I've never wrote my blog in English, but I wrote one because peice by piece > discussion is not going to anywhere. > > > http://blog.ohgaki.net/dont-use-php7-type-hint-for-external-data > > How many of you think current scalar type hint is useful enough to interact > with database/json/xml/yaml/rest/etc? We need "numeric" hint at least. IMHO. > > If not, we need "large warning sign" in documentation as a last resort at > least. > > Regards, > > P.S. We may be better to declare 32 bit CPU support EOL by PHP 7 to reduce > the impact. We'll have the same issue when 128 bit CPU or 128 bits IEEE 754 > float > became in common, though. > > -- > Yasuo Ohgaki > yohgaki@ohgaki.net > > > Hello, I have read through your blog post, and I agreed on the issue > earlier, nut I have a question that bugs me for a while: what DoS issue are > you talking about? I tried to imagine any scenario that can lead to a DoS > wuith a type hint and can't think of any happening... If any it is a bug in PHP, php driver or the likes. About killing 32bit, why not, while there are still some needs for it. But definitely not for this reason, which is totally unrelated. Cheers, Pierre