This isn't a waste of bandwidth. This is about the future of the language and about the fact that PHP is missing a crucial feature that several other languages have had for years and others are working on -- PHP's competition, in other words.
Please explain to me how using an array is a solution. As I see it, it's not. It's a hack. It gives you nothing...no code-completion, no error checking, no built-in documentation -- not even type hinting which was a nice add-on for PHP 5. I don't mean to sound antagonistic, but there's only one justification I can see for not implementing named parameters and that's time. Actually defending a design decision of rejecting it quite frankly astonishes me. Jared > Guys, > > It's not going to happen. Please move on. We've discussed it lots of > times in the past. Many times we've come to the conclusion that for a > few cases it's not worth it. > If you have functions with lots of parameters (probably 3-4 in a > whole application) then just use array()'s. It's actually not a > mediocre but a pretty decent solution. > > Don't mean to be abrupt but we waste so much bandwidth here on things > we've already discussed in the past, and most of the main dev's > clearly aren't in favor. > > Andi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
