Re: Feature?

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:36:25AM +0300, Andrey Hristov wrote: : : After some days spent in a hospital reading "Programming Perl" and : "Oracle Web Applications" I found that a language construct which : appears in Perl and PL/SQL is not available in PHP. : As in most 3G languages function call is like that : $bar=foo($bar1,$bar2,$bar3,'bar4'); : : function foo($par1=1,$par2=2,$par3=3,$par4='foo_bar',...){ : ... : } : In the case when I've few parameters I've to remember their order, so why not : $bar=foo('par2'=>10); : I want to pass value to only one or more but not to all params. Also : this will make the code clearer I think. AFAIK, Perl doesn't support named parameters (it's listed for Perl 6). Since C does not support this, almost all C-like languages also do not support this. The only exception I know of is Objective-C, which is the base language for Apple's new Unix-based Mac OS X. As for PHP supporting named parameters, it seems silly to preserve C's use of parentheses. Why not do something more radical like Objective-C that draws from Smalltalk syntax: $bar = [foo par2:10] -- Eugene Lee eugene@fsck.net