constants for publish values

[AJH]

Out of curiosity, why aren't the Joomla! publish types a set of constants defined in a common location?

e.g. in ControllerAdmin::publish() :

array('publish' => 1, 'unpublish' => 0, 'archive' => 2, 'trash' => -2, 'report' => -3);

I've seen these numeric values used elsewhere in the JGrid as well.

[b2z]

Agree. Seems like "magic numbers" and such should be avoided of course. But IMO this thread should moved to the CMS Dev.