Hi! > * Time (actually pretty common in web apps, though we have a DateTime > class)
Admittedly, we're getting closer to the dreaded year 2038, but what does it actually mean to divide current Unix timestamp by 3 and why one would ever want to do this? We also have classes for real datetime calculations. > * Splitting into rows and columns > * Pagination Here you are onto something, but how often you paginate data sets of MAXINT size and need exact number of pages? > * Currency (you can’t, for example, represent the full number of BTC > in circulation in BTC's base unit without using an integer of beyond > 53-bits, and it’s common practise to use *fixed-point* arithmetic > here) If you're using ints for currency, you're probably doing it wrong. If you're dividing currency using integer division, I don't even know what you are trying to do, except reenacting Office Space :) > * Nearest-neighbour scaling You mean image processing? If 53 bit precision is not enough there, I'm not even sure PHP should be doing that. IMHO this is not enough for a new operator... Especially if this means we have to tolerate something like %/. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
