Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:16012 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80397 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Apr 2005 17:17:54 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 80381 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2005 17:17:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pb1.pair.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Apr 2005 17:17:53 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.11.173.122 unknown Received: from ([66.11.173.122:37860] helo=interjinn.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2.12rc1 r(5476:5477)) with SMTP id D5/CF-18700-1CBE3624 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:53 -0400 Received: from blobule.suds (blobule.suds [192.168.1.3]) by interjinn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912FA11FB5E; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:17:50 -0400 (EDT) To: garbageman@gauldong.net Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <3c4c8fa60504181002304be6c2@mail.gmail.com> References: <3c4c8fa605041809405048f671@mail.gmail.com> <1113842970.6606.7.camel@blobule.suds> <3c4c8fa60504181002304be6c2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: InterJinn Message-ID: <1113844575.6606.13.camel@blobule.suds> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5-4mdk Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:16:16 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: "mixed up PHP" variant (Re: [PHP-DEV] named parameters?) From: robert@interjinn.com (Robert Cummings) On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:02, Hendy Irawan wrote: > On 4/18/05, Robert Cummings wrote: > > 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 :) > Yeah, I think so... but I did a search on the archives and found > nothing (at least, I found nothing on the first N results... maybe the > full text indexer needed some tweaking) > > Anyways, what PHP alternatives to PHP are already available out there? > I think it's nice to have a "risk your life" PHP version that merges > all available patches that never got into the official PHP. People > building the "RYL" PHP will have to specify something like: > > ./configure --enable-named-parameters --enable-attributes > > to enable these features (or maybe --enable-all-experimental for the > most adventurous). Giving no optional features would build an exact > PHP as the official version. > > Does something like this already exist? Not that I know of. I think such a concept would be interesting though, not as a RYL package, but as a power feature package-- especially if it had a mandate to maintain 100% compatibility with normal PHP. Then power users could use all of the existing scripts made for PHP and have all the power features of Power-PHP (not that it could be called Power-PHP without the blessing of Zend :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'