Hi Andrea, On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote:
> > On 12 Jan 2015, at 00:55, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote: > > > > It works, but I prefer to have procedural API also (and OO API if it is > needed.) > > I like multi paradigm programming language. > > I don’t see the point of a “procedural API” here, it’d just be a set of > thin wrappers around the OOP API. > > Multi-paradigm means actually providing different approaches. Every time > PHP has had both a “procedural” and “OOP” API so far, it’s been nothing of > the sort, the “procedural” API has been the OOP one in disguise. There is > zero functional difference between $foo->bar($baz, $qux); and foo_bar($foo, > $baz, $qux); and we should stop pretending there is one. > > Are people seriously scared off by the syntax of “OOP” APIs or something? > I just don’t get it. Surely it is not hard to explain that mysql_query and > $mysqli->query are exactly the same thing?! > I just would like to make sure that there is both. We are better off with both OO and procedural API like Python, IMO. > > > BTW, difference between 32bit and 64bit platforms would not be a problem > > as long as it is documented. > > It’s not necessarily a “problem”, but I don’t see why 64-bit integers > shouldn’t be properly supported on 64-bit systems. Nice idea. Let's have 64 bit random in 32 bit systems. (i.e. same seed = same sequence as long as mix/max fits in range） Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net
