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Does it make sense to write tests for enums?

I feel kind of like I should, just like I feel like I should write tests for public constants. If someone changes the static value, I want a test to complain about it, but PHPStan complains about me writing these tests because “it will always be true.” Until someone or some AI agent decides to change it.

Thoughts?

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Where did we ever land on traits with interfaces? I see this RFC from 2016 (TEN YEARS AGO!), but I swear it was something discussed more recently leading up to 8.4 or 8.5. Was there a more recent effort to adopt them, or was I dreaming that?

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/traits-with-interfaces

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