Re: consistent way to handle structs

I think was said by Thies Arntzen few months ago for PHP5. I saw that this is possible in Perl so asked on the dev forum for this functionality ...but Thies was the first. Regards, Andrey Hristov P.S. Zend2 weekly cronicle is a good thing but why the last issue is from Oct 31 2001? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Boeren" <M.Boeren@guidance.nl> To: "'Markus Fischer'" <mfischer@guru.josefine.at> Cc: <derick@php.net>; "Andi Gutmans" <andi@zend.com>; "Hartmut Holzgraefe" <hartmut@six.de>; <georg@php.net>; <php-dev@lists.php.net>; <andrei@ispi.net> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:43 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] consistent way to handle structs > > [fn(,,,,foo,,,,bar)] > > I agree on that. You really don't know which parameters it > > was anymore. > > You don't have this problem with hashes. > > But I already see this thread won't get us anywhere :) > > Well, I think everybody agrees that with hashes, functions are much easier > to use... but that it is very inefficient. How about finding a new way to > pass named parameters to a function? > Like > fn(foo2=$bar, foo=17); > where fn accepts five parameters, in any order, but with 1 default order so > you can use fn(17, $bar) as well (since foo, foo2 is the default order) (and > the remaining arguments (3) are set to their default values. > > > Cheerio, Marc. > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >