One thing I would really like to see in 5.4 is enums. There is already an RFC for that: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/enum
This was discussed in february this year, but no consensus was reached. IIRC, the most notable problems were: - What is the 'value' of enum constant: string or int, user defined scalar, defaults - Ability to make enums more 'class like', some people wanted to be able to add methods. Another thing which was discussed (and I think most people agreed on that), but is not in the RFC: type hinting in method signatures. I think we should keep this simple proposal simple, let it be an enum in all its simplicity. The toughest part would be to decide what would be the default value. Some proposed to use the name of the constant, which is imho best for debuggability (i like this one the best), or an auto incrementing int, saying that it is better performance wise and which is more analog with mysql's enum type. So, to sum up: - Do we really need enum level methods? - Need to reach consensus on default values (strings vs auto inc. ints) - RFC needs to be updated, explaining the type hinting of enums in method signatures Regards, Dennis Haarbrink
