Re: Re: Named arguments revisited
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:37:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Named arguments revisited | ||
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Zeev Suraski wrote:
At 09:51 15/01/2006, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:Well, having half of a feature like that by only making it work in some places is what I think many folks are against. I don't think the answer is no if we had a clean and consistent way to implement it. I would certainly be all for it in that case. -RasmusAidan Lister wrote:As Andi said, that's hardly the big issue (we could have provided it as a userland feature, not applicable to internal functions, or applicable to just a small subset of them). The big issue is whether or not we want that feature in the language, and the answer appears to be no.Are the PHP group prepared to accept and implement a named parameters patch?As far as I am concerned it would depend on the patch. If you can come up with a way to do it with requiring rewriting all 4000+ functions out there, go for it.