Perl5 is old enough so this behaviour has a niche. Possibly even PHP4 is old enough for that. But PHP5 was born when both 64 bit ints and good, open arbitrary p

Perl5 is old enough so this behaviour has a niche. Possibly even PHP4 is old enough for that. But PHP5 was born when both 64 bit ints and good, open arbitrary precision libraries were available and very fast. This, now, where it's being used, is absurd. There is no two ways to that. And this doesn't happen elsewhere to this extent. I will leave you the last word though. Cheerio.