Re: Re: Named arguments revisited
| From: | Hartmut Holzgraefe | Date: | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:54:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Named arguments revisited | ||
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Ron Korving wrote:
Let me summarize it for you then. Advantages of named parameters over associative arrays: - cleaner syntax - support for type hints - difference between required and optional parameters - generating documentation (whether with something like phpDoc or an IDE) - ... Can anyone summarize the disadvantages now please?- all internal and PECL functions need to be recoded as the API right now doesn't know any concept of parameter names at all -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer . MySQL AB, www.mysql.com