Re: keyword arguments?

Actually, that would be acceptable, since you lose the bulk of array(). The only thing that remains a problem is that if you add another (non-named) parameter, you still need to worry about the relative positions in all of your functions. Now that I think about it, that's actually a bigger complaint for me than having to use array(). Thoughts? Comments? Flames? Daniel P.S. Thank you for the link to the patches :)

--------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm still in favor of an approach we are using here where you can pass associative arrays without array():

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