Hi,
out of curiosity: There are several places in ezc where strings are used
internally as kind of flags or enums:
- Column Types in ezcDatabaseSchema
- MvcTools
- ?
In contrast Sebastian used numeric constants in ezcWorkflow to indicate
different activation states of nodes:
const WAITING_FOR_ACTIVATION = 0;
const WAITING_FOR_EXECUTION = 1;
I thought, that using constants should be preferred, because
- the compiler tells you, if you mistyped a constants name
- comparing two integers is faster then comparing two strings(?)
- You have a central place, where you can lookup all possible values
Or is there anything I missed?
Thanks for your time reading this,
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