Re: [IDEA] allow extending enum

Hi Rokas, On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 08:36, Rokas Šleinius <rokas.sleinius@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 18:40, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > > > 1) Please don't top-post. > > Am I doing it right now? I've never been on a mailing list. You're replying in the preferred manner, yes. Quoting only the needed amount and putting replies underneath. Though deleting all non-relevant text is also good. Have two possibly useful guidelines: * Mailing list etiquette guidelines - https://phpopendocs.com/internals/mailing_list * Email etiquette for people new to newsgroups / PHP internals - https://phpopendocs.com/internals/mailing_list_for_younguns which might get copied across to php.net at some point... > In fact, I was too young and missed out on BBS as well, and now using > this laughably archaic collaboration method, receiving mostly > stone-harsh replies generously sprinkled with genius insights, having > to quite literally hack a registration form as one of the several > required steps for contribution... Wow this is a really remarkable > experience for me :D Well, it builds character. And as soon as someone suggests something that is obviously better, and not just replacing one set of problems with another, the discussions might move. > I am really impressed how elegant and actually genius the enum > implementation is. So well rounded, minimal, yet creates so much > value! And it only took the PHP project about 20 years of discussion to get an agreeable implementation... cheers Dan Ack