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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:53:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Partial Function Application v2
To: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
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From: volker@tideways-gmbh.com (Volker Dusch)

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 7:46=E2=80=AFPM Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.=
com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2025, at 1:54 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:
> The one outstanding question is whether we allow reordering using named a=
rguments or preserve the underlying order.  Arnaud says either one is doabl=
e.  So far, only 2 people have commented on it (favoring reordering).  We s=
till want feedback from more people to see if there really is a consensus o=
ne way or another.  (2 people is too small a sample size to draw any conclu=
sions.)

> Also, if anyone not named Tim would like to weigh in, now is the time. :-=
)

For what it's worth:

```
function f($a, $b, $c) { echo "$a-$b-$c"; }

$f =3D f(c: ?, b: ?, a: ?);
$f(1, 2, 3);
```

I expect this to print 3-2-1, intuitively. "c" is the new first
parameter in the "function definition" for me.

So count me as "reordering".

Kind Regards,
Volker