On 17 Jul 2014, at 07:56, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > The rare cases where I had to do that, I relied on bcmath or gmp. Yes, > I needed some extra ops to actually achieve what this RFC proposes but > it is good enough. The new ops overloading for extension simplifies > that a lot as well. > > I am sorry but I'd to say -1 on this addition, not worse a new > operator or function for this.
How on earth is adding a nearly-universal function everywhere else to PHP’s math library so controversial, let alone as an operator? Yes, you *can* do it with bcmath or gmp, but one should question why you *should*, given that it’s a horrible workaround. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php