Re: [development] need a standard for contrib node build_mode constants

Chris Johnson wrote:

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it's just as possible to accidentally re-use a string constant as a numeric constant. How does using a string help things at all? Either the developer reads and enumerates a list of all existing uses and avoids collision -- or does not -- regardless of whether they are integers, strings, or ice cream flavors.

Please educate me!

Strings have meaning. Ints do not. Therefore if there is a collision it is at least a collision over meaning.