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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's discuss enums!
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

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Bob Weinand wrote on 18/09/2015 15:23:
> Well, I think we should*either*  have an ordinal*or*  a name.
> But not both.
>
> Currently, after thinking about it, I'm in favor of just a name. And no ordinal.
> Having both is, I think, unnecessary.

Yeah, that was my instinct. It's a bit like surrogate keys on database 
tables - if your table has a natural Primary Key, there's no need to add 
an auto-increment field. :)

And the name kind of has to exist anyway, or you can't reference the 
enum value at all. You could make it inaccessible, but then not being 
able to get a string representation for debugging, or to do a dynamic 
Weekdays::getByName($_GET['day']), would be annoying.

Regards,
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Rowan Collins
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