Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Proposal: Arbitrary precision native scalar type

2023-12-12 Thread G. P. B. 
Gina P. Banyard

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 08:51, Alexander Pravdin 
wrote:

> I just found out that under PHP 8.3, basic arithmetic operations on the
> Decimal object variables are no longer supported and cause TypeError. So
> this is one more point to implementing native decimals in PHP.
>

This is either a bug in the extension or a bug in PHP 8.3 (which I doubt)
but I will have a look at this.

Gina P. Banyard

[PHP-DEV] Re: Proposal: Arbitrary precision native scalar type

2023-12-12 Thread Alexander Pravdin 
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 3:36 PM Alex Pravdin  wrote:

Ext-decimal:
> ...
> - Workaround: implements the Decimal class that allows basic regular math
> operations.
>

I just found out that under PHP 8.3, basic arithmetic operations on the
Decimal object variables are no longer supported and cause TypeError. So
this is one more point to implementing native decimals in PHP.

Best,
Alex