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Subject: Re: Clarification on the Enum language structure
From: thomas.gutbier@anthrotec.de (Thomas Gutbier)

Jarrod Nettles wrote:
> So, my proposed syntax would look something more like this.

I think also and was wondering about the current rfc for a few weeks.
Im not a core developer but I want to outline what i would expect as
php framework developer.

> namespace System\Logs
> {
>                  enum Levels{
>                                  DEBUG,
>                                  INFO,
>                                  WARNING,
>                                  ERROR
>                  };
> }

Yes, after that I would expect a new type "Levels"
and the possibility to do something like this:

$log = new Levels;
$log = WARNING;
or
$log = new Levels(WARNING);

Like the current rfc i think, therefore we need the corresponding
constants to be defined by defining the Levels type.

Furthermore we should have the appropriate type hints for
function/method calls.

Assuming, we have a method like this

public function setLogLevel (Levels $logLevel)
{
     $this->logLevel = $logLevel;
}

i would like to call them by delivering $log as a parameter

$someLogginObject->setLogLevel($log)

and get an error in the case the type of $log is not Levels.

What do you think about a viable approach to
implement a enum language structure.

The current rfc seams not very useful for me.

Thanks!

Thomas Gutbier
Web Developer
Hannover, Germany