Hi folks,
I just got on the list -- I've been a big fan of PHP for several
years and am throughly enjoying PHP 5. Good work folks, and once I
can get 5.1 set up on my OS X box I'm sure it's be even better.
I've been very interested in hearing about PHP 6 feature discussions,
and the meeting notes that Derrick posted looked really good. But
there was one item that stood out for me as being extremely
disappointing, and that was the curt dismissal of named arguments (or
parameters I guess you are calling them).
Named arguments are absolutely essential for using PHP as a solid
templating language, and, in fact, they also greatly enhance code
readability for complex method calls of in-depth APIs. My experience
with both Objective-C and Python has showed me the wonders and joys
of named arguments, and it is something I've desperately wanted in
PHP for ages. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I've tried array
constructs, multiple arguments with string-based names and fancy
parsing using func_get_args(), and various combinations thereof, and
nothing is a good substitute for the real deal.
If I had the technical knowhow to jump in and help implement this, I
would, but I'm a lousy C programmer. :( But I definitely want to lend
my support to anyone interested in working on this. Please, please
don't give up on this feature!
Thanks so much,
Jared
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