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 from other languages?
> 2. Does anybody uses this feature and will someone object if it is
> returned to the thing the rest of languages having printf do?
> 

IMHO, I think this is an artifact of PHP only supporting _signed_
integers.

Refer to http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php

Sincerely,

Lars Povlsen
Filanet Europe A/S

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