Re: Named parameters

On Mon, October 18, 2010 2:45 am, mathieu.suen wrote: > On 10/15/2010 07:26 PM, G M 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); When I suggested this to Ze'ev in PHP 3.x -> 4.0 days, I believe his response ran along the lines of "running away screaming into the night"... After a decade of reflection, I think it over-complicates PHP, which we don't really need. Just pass in an array with whatever parameters you want, and tear it apart in the function. You can @document that array in any way you choose, naming all the valid keys, and what they ought to be. -- brain cancer update: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/search/label/brain%20tumor Donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FS9NLTNEEKWBE