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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:25:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's discuss enums!
From: jgmdev@gmail.com (Jefferson Gonzalez)

On 09/18/2015 01:21 PM, Levi Morrison wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Levi Morrison wrote on 18/09/2015 18:04:
>>>
>>> Anything else is trying to add value in some way – in your case you
>>> are adding a primitive value that the language will automatically map
>>> for you. I'm not saying that is a bad thing but I hope you can at
>>> least recognize that it is an addition and not the bare minimum. The
>>> RFC I am planning on proposing will have only the bare minimum because
>>> it's the least controversial part and is the most useful. The other
>>> stuff we can debate about later.
>>
>>
>> That's why I was kind of surprised to see ordinal() in there in the draft -
>> it's an additional field on each member, which in many cases has no
>> relationship to the value being represented.
>
> I suspect it will be removed before hitting the official discussion phase :D
>
>> Also, apologies for accidentally starting the discussion of your draft "too
>> early", I wasn't aware that you were working on it. I was trying to offer
>> something productive to the language, since I've been spending a lot of time
>> talking down new features lately. :)
>
> No worries – it happens.
>

I also believe the rfc should include type hinting of enums as has been 
mentioned on this discussion. That would make enumerations more useful 
and the rfc more complete.

enum Weekday {SUNDAY=0, MONDAY=1, TUESDAY=2, WEDNESDAY=3}

function set_day(Weekday $day) : Weekday
{
     // $day can only be numbers 0,1,2,3

     //$return can only also be 0,1,2,3
}

Enums is a really needed feature for PHP that would have make code much 
more cleaner and easy to follow than what we have today.