How about having the ellipsis _after_ the variable? That then coincides with phpDocumentor's recommended syntax of "$c,..." and it keeps any typehint or & with the variable name ("array &$arr..." versus "array &...$arr") and, honestly, I think that reads more easily.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Matthew Leverton <lever...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Would any functions get deprecated as a result of this? e.g., > > func_get_args() > > > > Nope, func_get_args() etc stay. This is now mentioned in > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics#userland. > > > > I assume it's a syntax error to do function fn(...$foo, $bar) or > > function fn(...$foo, ...$bar) > > > > Correct. This is now mentioned in > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/variadics#syntactic_restrictions. > > > > I assume that function fn($a, $b = null, ...$c) is possible, and the > > only way to populate $c is to call fn with three or more parameters. > > > > That's also correct :) > > Nikita >