Re: Revisiting the "Named Arguments" RFC

Cool! Hopefuly it’ll make it some day - that’d be very useful to have. :3 Am So. Jan. 12 2014 11:27:22 schrieb Nikita Popov: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Kevin Ingwersen <ingwie2000@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello there. > > Within one of the recent votes, I was reminded upon an RFC for named parameters/arguments - to > be exact, this one: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params > > I just wanted to know if this RFC is still in discussion, has been dropped, or what else is > currently being up with it. Because in my opinion, that’d be a very useful addition - as many > modern languages support this kind of feature already. The only language that I personaly am using > that supports that is Objective-C - and in there, it is very useful. Although its quite different - > it’s a different call-style entirely - I could imagine the implementation from the link above to > be very useful in PHP. > > It would be great to know the current state of the RFC, as I didn’t really see anything of > its current state on the page itself. > > A quick summary: > > The open questions are mostly resolved, namely: Variadics / unpacking on named args should use > same syntax as for not-named args. No signature checks should be introduced, instead use runtime > errors. The question of syntax wasn't yet entirely clear, though that's something one > could just vote, if need be. > > The patch itself is also finished from the "general feature implementation" side. > What is missing are updates to internal functions. Namely all arginfo structs should be made > consistent across functions and synced with the docs. Also we need to ensure that argument parsing > for internal functions works correctly everywhere. > > Feature freeze for 5.6 is in two months and the last two points require a huge amount of work > (because of the sheer number of functions in our standard library). I started a bit on the arginfo > part, by updating the parameter names for array functions in the docs, but didn't continue that > effort as other things got in the way. I don't think I'll have enough time to finish this > before 5.6 FF. > > So, likely this will be postponed to the next version of PHP ;) > > Nikita