Re: Re: Named arguments revisited

Frank M. Kromann wrote:

And if you have many parameters to functions you still need to look at the definition (or documentation) to figure out what parameters the function takes. It's not a big problem to look at the order at the same time.

lets face the opposite direction for a second: all those string functions with different order of haystack and needle named parameters could help to reduce the criticism we get for this poor choice of parameter order in the past ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer . MySQL AB, www.mysql.com