On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 7:49 AM Larry Garfield <la...@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2020, at 9:11 AM, Rowan Tommins wrote: > > > Note that Larry's longer term plan is for "algebraic data types", > > including "tagged unions": https://wiki.php.net/rfc/adts Unlike > > straight-forward enum cases, these are not singletons, and each instance > > has its own associated state. > > > I was going to respond, but I think Rowan summed it up here.
That's disappointing as he didn't even attempt to address the majority of my concerns. > Stateful enums are called tagged unions, and that's a separate phase to keep > the implementation and discussion focused for now. I am only talking about the RFC you presented, you and Rowan are the ones bringing up others. > We hope to add those in the future, but for now unit and scalar enums have a > ton of value unto themselves. > > --Larry Garfield To be clear I want enums in PHP, I think most people do, which is why I'd like to see this RFC improved. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php
