Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Better type names for int64 RFC
[email protected] (Andrea Faulds)
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On 23 Aug 2014, at 20:19, Kris Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a quick question for the people debating this issue: Aside from the > dispute over whether or not it's necessary / unimportant, are there any > pressing reasons *not* to implement the changes that Pierre is advocating? > I.e. would it break anything, waste a large amount of time, make the code > harder to maintain, etc? Or is it just that you don't think it's worth > doing? I can think of two: 1. It breaks most extensions out there, perhaps unnecessarily. 2. If bigints are implemented, we’d have to rename everything again. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/