[wp-hackers] A new $comment_type?

[David Clark]

On Jan 20, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Matthew Mullenweg wrote:

> David Clark wrote:
>> Right now, $comment_type can have  one of 3 values, comment, 
>> trackback, or pingback. I would like a 4th for page_comments -- 
>> here's why:
>
> Since they're treated transparently (no speed benefit from ENUM) they 
> could be just plain strings without any changes.
>

Right -- its a non-issue on the SQL side -- but it would mean hacking 
wp_notify_postauthor() and the like, which is what I'm trying to avoid.