On 04/12/2020 23:24, Larry Garfield wrote:
The first step, for unit enumerations, is here:
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enumerations
There's still a few bits we're sorting out and the implementation is mostly
done, but not 100% complete.
I use 'Enumerations' quite extensively but have not found the lack of a
hard coded base for that a limitation at least partially because as
provided in databases the fundamental restrictions that imposes make
using them something of a 'bodge job'.
There are two areas I would highlight as causing problems. ...
1/ Dynamic Enumerations ... where the application may need to add or
delete values over time. I have a number of tables in the database which
provide a dynamic list of elements which are used to provide the lists
inside the PHP functionality. These are invariably managed by a numeric
index in addition to the text of each item, and historic values remain
in the database flagged as inactive.
2/ An area that PHP remains poor at supporting, internationalization.
Since the vast number of end users do not have English as a first
language, then translations of the enumeration values becomes essential
and the table approach obviously works nicely here since one simply
provides multiple sets of text in parallel and select the language
needed as an option.
I am not saying that there is anything wrong with the proposal, only
that as with many aspects being proposed these days, there is a distinct
lack of consideration on just how some aspects of their use can be
expanded to cover internationalization and the example in the RFC has no
obvious way of supporting a different language?
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