On Mon, Jun 14, 2021, at 9:35 AM, Nikita Popov wrote:
> Hi internals,
>
> With the introduction of enums, it's now possible for constants to hold
> objects. However, this works only when using the `const X = Y` syntax, not
> when using `define('X', Y)`, which still excludes objects.
>
> I've submitted https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/7149 to relax the
> restriction. This means that define() would accept everything apart from
> recursive arrays.
>
> An alternative here would be to allow define() to only accept enum objects
> in particular, but not other objects. I would prefer not to do that, as
> such a restriction would be rather arbitrary, now that the technical work
> to support objects has been done. (PS: Please keep the difference between
> mutability and interior mutability in mind.)
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
Sounds fine to me. define() is runtime anyway so it should support runtime
values.
--Larry Garfield
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