On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote:
> On 01/05/2013 03:29 PM, Kris Craig wrote: > > > In both cases, we really don't care what the actual values of brown, > black, > > and purple are. We just want it to be unique so we can reference each of > > them in a visually friendly way with minimal performance impact. That's > > where I could see a valid use-case for Ruby-like symbols in PHP. > > What you are describing is just an enum. That's not really what Ruby > symbols are about. > > -Rasmus > > Ruby doesn't have native enums. Symbols are often used in Ruby code to obtain the same functionality, though. --Kris
