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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:36:19 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Ruby's symbols
From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> On 01/05/2013 03:29 PM, Kris Craig wrote:
>
> > In both cases, we really don't care what the actual values of brown,
> black,
> > and purple are.  We just want it to be unique so we can reference each of
> > them in a visually friendly way with minimal performance impact.  That's
> > where I could see a valid use-case for Ruby-like symbols in PHP.
>
> What you are describing is just an enum. That's not really what Ruby
> symbols are about.
>
> -Rasmus
>
>
Ruby doesn't have native enums.  Symbols are often used in Ruby code to
obtain the same functionality, though.

--Kris

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