From my read, SplEnum is a bit janky -- you still have to defibe integer

Le 21/05/2014 00:32, Sumana Harihareswara a écrit : Hello, I will not be able to attend, but have a minor concern. The Typesafe enums RFC mentions PHP build in [SplEnum] class and dismiss it because it is unintuitive. Before reinventing the wheel, it would be nice to elaborate a bit more as to why SplEnum is unwanted. I am afraid of having to maintain yet another piece of custom code and make the MediaWiki learning curve slightly worth. Ideally we would work with upstream to enhance it and match our needs but I guess it is going to take too long (ie years before it land in production). [SplEnum] http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.splenum.php cheers, -- Antoine "hashar" Musso _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

I gave SplEnum a quick read as well. It seems they are solving a different use case. SplEnum appears to be optimized for the case where you have some inherently-integer constants floating around your code (due to legacy or interoperation with C or network protocols or what-have-you),