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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:43:08 -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 3:39 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> On 01/05/2013 03:36 PM, Kris Craig wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com
> > <mailto: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.
>
> Right, but if that is the only use you can come up with for them in PHP,
> then there are way simpler ways to do it. We already have an enum RFC.
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enum
>
> -Rasmus
>
>
Granted, but other use-cases have already been presented as well.
 Obviously the one I suggested would no longer be useful if PHP adopts
enums.

--Kris

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