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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:42:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [Discussion] Debugable enums
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From: tovilo.ilija@gmail.com (Ilija Tovilo)

Hi Daniel

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 1:06=E2=80=AFAM Daniel Scherzer
<daniel.e.scherzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd like to start the discussion for a new RFC about removing the prohibi=
tion on __debugInfo() methods on enums.
>
> * RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/debugable-enums
> * Implementation: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21425

The RFC currently only mentions:

> var_dump(Foo::Bar); // produces an array with "Bar is a case of the Foo e=
num"

But it would be good for it to spell out the full output for the
examples. From the implementation, I can see:

> object(Foo)#%d (1) {
>  [0]=3D>
>  string(14) "Foo::Bar =3D Baz"
> }

I think the enum(Foo::Bar) header should be preserved. If the user
wants to print some ancillary data for some reason, I wouldn't object
to that.

Ilija