"mixed up PHP" variant (Re: [PHP-DEV] named parameters?)

On 4/18/05, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:40, Hendy Irawan wrote: > > Does anybody want named parameters? > > > > These are handy as template functions (like in Smarty), and these are > > achievable since the oldest PHP by using associative arrays. It's > > purely syntactic sugar, but it's a very convenient thing I guess (and > > promotes long, long lists of parameters as well ;-) > > I for one would love them since they are very nice and concise for > functions that take optional parameters and have a lot of them (such as > generic search functions). It would save on the creation of a temporary > array, and then having pass that to the function. But then, I also think > this has been to the list before, and we don't currently have named > parameters, so I'm guessing it got shot down already :) Yeah, I think so... but I did a search on the archives and found nothing (at least, I found nothing on the first N results... maybe the full text indexer needed some tweaking) Anyways, what PHP alternatives to PHP are already available out there? I think it's nice to have a "risk your life" PHP version that merges all available patches that never got into the official PHP. People building the "RYL" PHP will have to specify something like: ./configure --enable-named-parameters --enable-attributes to enable these features (or maybe --enable-all-experimental for the most adventurous). Giving no optional features would build an exact PHP as the official version. Does something like this already exist? -- Hendy Irawan http://www.gauldong.net http://dev.gauldong.net