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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:00:47 +0200
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] #52563: Adding E_NONE and/or E_EVERYTHING constants
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Rhetorical question: Why do we need constants when the values never
>> change? :)
>
> You seriously don't know why one needs constants or don't see a difference
> between constant E_WARNING equal to 8 and constant E_NONE meaning "nothing"
> and equal to 0? How about having constants ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR? Just in
> case, won't hurt anybody, right? :)

Do we have to stop add constants with obvious numbers? My obvious
number is 42 :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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