On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, at 2:21 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: > Hello, Internalians! > > After considerable discussion and effort, Ilija and I are ready to > offer you round 2 on enumerations. This is in the spirit of the > previous discussion, but based on that discussion a great deal has been > reworked. The main change is that Enumeration Cases are now object > instances of the Enumeration class rather than their own class. Most > of the other changes are knock-on effects of that. > > Of particular note: > > * Cases may not have methods or constants on them. They're just dumb values. > * Enums themselves may have methods, static methods, or constants. > * Traits are supported, as long as they don't have properties. > * The value() method on scalar enums is now a property. > > The full RFC is here, and I recommend reading it again in full given > how much was updated. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enumerations > > The implementation is 98% complete; there's still a few lagging bits in > reflection, and some opcache bugs that Ilija is still stomping on. > > There are a few outstanding questions listed that we would like > feedback on. We're not entirely certain which direction to go with > them, for reasons explained in the RFC. Input on those is especially > welcome. > > Happy New Year. May it be enumerable.
And we're back again. The RFC has been updated with a steady stream of smaller improvements based on feedback and testing, and is now in its Final Form(tm) (we think). The only major change worth noting is that we renamed things. :-) An enum with no scalar backing is now called a Pure Enum, made up of Pure Cases. One that does have backing values is called a Backed Enum, made up of Backed Cases. That change is mainly to allow for future expansion to non-scalar backing static values, should the use case arise. Reflection was also reworked a bit to make it more logical. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enumerations At this point, Ilija and I consider the RFC done and ready for a vote. Baring any major issues being brought up, we plan to start the vote in the first half of next week, probably Tuesday-ish. If you have any other bug reports or tweaks, please speak now or forever hold your patches. --Larry Garfield -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
