Re[8]: [PHP] Need a more elegant way of bitwise ORing values

Hi Robert, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 3:37:38 PM, you wrote: > Personally I hate constants (can't use non-scalar values so why get used > ot them... also they're just another point for name collision) so if it > were my own code I'd do something more like the following: Sure, but the filter extension uses them, which is where they come from. They aren't of my own creation, and I cannot assume that the values assigned to them won't change in the future, so can't hardcode my way around them. I don't have anything against side-wide constants myself (no worse than an array shoved into $GLOBALS) but PHP seems to be moving more and more towards the use of constants within extensions as function parameters, PDO being another popular culprit that springs to mind. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window"