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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] named parameters?
From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings)

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:40, Hendy Irawan wrote:
> Does anybody want named parameters?
> 
> These are handy as template functions (like in Smarty), and these are
> achievable since the oldest PHP by using associative arrays. It's
> purely syntactic sugar, but it's a very convenient thing I guess (and
> promotes long, long lists of parameters as well ;-)

I for one would love them since they are very nice and concise for
functions that take optional parameters and have a lot of them (such as
generic search functions). It would save on the creation of a temporary
array, and then having pass that to the function. But then, I also think
this has been to the list before, and we don't currently have named
parameters, so I'm guessing it got shot down already :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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