Re: Enums, flags and ::

Steph - I hit the same thing on my upgrade attempt. Christian's right, in that I see so much that needs to be changed already, the Enums/Flags would be just one more thing to do. Since I've got about 40k of code, that's no small thing, but it's not fatal either. My question is: why do they need to change? What is being gained here? Madeleine D. At 04:50 PM 10/25/05 +0100, Steph Fox wrote: >Before it's too late (assuming it isn't already): Is there any way we can >return enums/flags to the standard GTK format, as they were in PHP-GTK 1? > >If you remember that far back, I spent more than a day trying to work out >what I was doing wrong when every enum in sight failed in an old script I >upgraded to PHP-GTK 2. I don't think I'm going to be the only scriptkiddie >baffled by that change. > >It's also the one area Christian and I can't come to an agreement over in >our coding standards discussions, because what _should_ be a constant is >being treated as some kind of a pseudo-method, which makes either approach >inconsistent by definition. > >I know it'd be a BC breakage for PHP-GTK 2 to change this now, but then >again we haven't released v. 2 yet. At present it's a BC breakage for >PHP-GTK 1, which is probably more serious. > >So the question is, do enums and flags _have_ to be registered as class >entry constants for ZE 2 to deal with them? Or is it just a matter of >convenience? > >- and the next question is, assuming it's possible to register them as >global constants, should we? > >- Steph > >-- >PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >