Enums/flags as objects?

I have just discovered that it is possible to register object constants. This raises interesting possibilities. In PHP-GTK 1, the various enums/flags are simply integers, so it is hard sometimes to figure out what 0 or 2 means when trying to debug the applications. With the object approach, each enum could be an object wrapper, that knows how to compare itself, output its string representation, etc. The downside is that objects take more memory, obviously. Do you think wrapping enums/flags as objects has advantages? PyGtk 2.3.x seems to do it this way. -Andrei For society, it's probably a good thing that engineers value function over appearance. For example, you wouldn't want engineers to build nuclear power plants that only _look_ like they would keep all the radiation inside. (Scott Adams - The Dilbert principle)