On 17/07/14 08:02, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I think it is, given I believe it's the first time people are asking for > this after PHP's been out for almost two decades... > As the RFC itself suggests, you can use the current division for most use > cases, including the ones mentioned above - they'd work in the vast > majority of cases.
What has happened in the intervening 20 years is that we have moved from having 16 bit computer systems on the desk to 64bit computers on our wrists? Coming up with some new operator is a pointless distraction. The ones we have are enough, they just need to be brought into the 21st century consistently, yet still work on the historic machines some people stile prefer ... just as PHP needs to handle unicode transparently it also needs to handle 64bit integers ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
