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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add get_object_constants and get_class_constants
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Hello Mike,

thank you! It is a useful feature to me.

My usecase are checks on defined constants:
e.g. on my Bitmasks i want to check if given position-value is valid for 
current bitmask: http://3v4l.org/CR2qJ
e.g. in my Exception Handler i check Exception-Codes: if not defined in 
Exception class, the underlying api may have changed
...

> array  *get_defined_constants* ([ bool |$categorize|= false ] )
As there is no equivalent function for classes, i like it simply for the 
sake of completeness too :)

To get rid of performance penalty, i mostly hardcode static arrays with 
all the constants (high maintenance costs!).

cryptocompress

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