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To: David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Symbol implementation
From: Danack@basereality.com (Dan Ackroyd)

On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 20:37, David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ES6 supports the Symbol type that is a replacement to hard-coded
> identifiers where it are not really need.

This seems quite similar to the idea of enums. That Levi and Bob might
have been working on: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enum

> typehint

Please could people stop using that word. PHP's type system for
parameters and return values are actual types, not just hints.

cheers
Dan