> Indeed I wasn't aware of this bug report. It seems as if your patch is fine > although I could only look at it briefly. > It does look strange that you need to initialize the resulting scale > manually. I thought the BC functions are supposed to take care of returning > the results as the right scale. > The BC functions will predeict the required scale of the output, but the numbers have to be in bc_num format going in and str2num requires that you specify a scale.
> In any case, it probably makes sense for you to go ahead and commit it. > Will do. > BTW, is php_str2num() only supposed to work on whole or decimal values? > What about exponents? > bc_str2num() only allows whole or decimal values so that's all I wrote php_str2num to allow for. By 'exponents' do you mean scientific notation? I don't see any support for that in the bc conversion functions. I don't suppose it would take much to add that capability, but that'd be a feature change and should probably be done separately (and only in HEAD). -Pollita -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
