Re: [PHP-DEV] Strange printf

2001-07-18 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
LP>> IMHO, I think this is an artifact of PHP only supporting _signed_ LP>> integers. But printing signed binary numbers or octals, etc. is pretty meaningless - at least, I fail to see any use of it and no printf I know ever did that. This also doesn't exactly works right - thus I ask, would it b

Re: [PHP-DEV] Strange printf

2001-07-18 Thread Lars Povlsen
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > I have noticed that PHP printf threats non-decimal formats as signed. This > is pretty non-standard, since C printf, for example, has all non-decimal > formats as ungined, and so does Perl. The questions are: > > 1. What was the reason for this strange deviation fro

[PHP-DEV] Strange printf

2001-07-18 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
I have noticed that PHP printf threats non-decimal formats as signed. This is pretty non-standard, since C printf, for example, has all non-decimal formats as ungined, and so does Perl. The questions are: 1. What was the reason for this strange deviation from other languages? 2. Does anybody uses