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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Named arguments revisited
From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider)

Jason Garber wrote:
>   Here is a coding idea for you, in case you hadn't considered it...
> 
>   function highlight($text=NULL, $needle=NULL, $strip_links=NULL, ...)
>   {
>      is_null($text) && $text = SOME DEFAULT VALUE;
>      is_null($needle) && $text = SOME DEFAULT VALUE;
>      is_null($strip_links) && $text = SOME DEFAULT VALUE;
>      ...
>   }

We use

function highlight($p = array())
{
	$p += array(	# Also serves as documentation
		'text' => SOME_DEFAULT_VALUE,
		'needle' => SOME_DEFAULT_VALUE,
		'strip_links' => SOME_DEFAULT_VALUE,
		...
	);
}
...
$highlight(array('strip_links' => true));

in cases just like this.

<shameless_plug>
Plus the patch from <http://cschneid.com/php> to get
$highlight('strip_links' => true);
</shameless_plug>

If named parameters for PHP are considered in the future then my main 
wish would be that there is a catch-all array receiving all the 
non-assignable parameters.

- Chris