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Subject: Re: PDO questions
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Lukas Smith wrote:

>> 3) Wouldn't it be nice if you could do a $stmt->execute("foo", "bar");
>> (numeric parameters) instead of $stmt->execute(array("foo", "bar")); ?
> 
> 
> I think this would severely hurt the extensibility of the API not only 
> for PDO itself, but also for people who want to transparently extend the 
> API.

Also note your suggestion would only work for ? placeholders and not for 
:foo style placeholders (which I would generally recommend for 
readability reasons).

regards,
Lukas