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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Ruby's symbols
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 01/05/2013 03:43 PM, Kris Craig wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I didn't see any other cases. The fact that we have interned
immutable strings in PHP invalidated all the other cases presented so far.

-Rasmus