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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Forced named parameters
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From: Weedpacket@varteg.nz (Morgan)

On 2025-05-23 13:24, Anton Smirnov wrote:
> Hi Alwin
> 
> 
> Please explain the syntax you propose about this part:
> 
>  > That way, you could even make it so that only specific arguments are 
> required to be named
> 
> because I see only 2 ways to call it:
> 
>    #[AllArgsAreNamed] function f (/* ... */)
> 
> and
> 
>    function f($arg1, #[AllArgsAfterThisOneAreNamed] $arg2, $arg3)
> 
> because
> 
>    function f($arg1, #[NamedArg] $arg2, /* positional again */ $arg3)
> 
> doesn't make sense, you cannot specify a positional argument after a 
> forced-named because it would be impossible to fill position 2 on the 
> function call.
> 

Just chiming in, but I interpreted it as suggesting something like

     #[RequireNamedArgs('arg2', 'arg3')]
     function f($arg1, $arg2, $arg3)