Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Integer Semantics
[email protected] (Andrea Faulds)
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On 15 Sep 2014, at 17:24, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> wrote: >> This RFC has been put to a vote. It starts today (2014-09-14) and ends in a week’s time (2014-09-21). >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/integer_semantics#vote > > A few people have asked why I voted no; the only reason is that > division by zero will return `false` and emit a warning. Integers can > be converted to floating point numbers and dividing by zero in IEEE > 754 is defined as INF. I would rather leave behavior undefined by > voting no on this RFC than by defining it to a value which does not > make sense to me. The value false will get converted to zero in any > additional math, which is not the same as INF. The RFC does not touch division by zero. That was a suggestion for a future RFC. I’ve now removed that section to avoid confusion. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/