Re: Named parameters

It's true that you can already do something similar -- although not as easily. I personally always use this pattern: function stuff($required1, $required2, $options = array()) { extract($options); } This still, however, makes everyone who call my functions have to do a lot of extra typing: stuff(1, 2, array('a' => 'b')) // well, not a lot but they have to type array( ) EVERY TIME instead, wouldn't it be nice if a) Every function ever written could become extensible b) People would be able to use that really easily: stuff(1, 2, 'a' => 'b', $c => $d)? PS: Please let's NOT make it stuff(1, 2, a => 'b', c => $d) as it would take away the option of having variable key names, which we can have in array(). Also it would create slight ambiguity with constants. On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Michael Shadle wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:26 AM, G M <gregory@gregory.net> wrote: >> Okay so I am thinking about submitting a patch to PHP that would enable you to call >> functions like this: >> >> stuff(1, 2, 'separator' => '<br>', 'clean' => >> true); > > I don't like having the never ending growing list of arguments issue, > but I just use > > function foo($args = array()) { > > # first pass to normalize, check, scrub data > > $bar = isset($args['whatever']) ? intval($args['whatever']) : 0; > > # second pass to do sanity checking or business logic... > > if($bar > 0) { > ... > } > > } > > Looks like Drupal 7 is taking this approach with some things too. > > I am not sure the language itself needs anything to change, it can be > done today and seems like an additional feature to shortcut something > already available.