Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21525 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13871 invoked by uid 1010); 13 Jan 2006 23:03:52 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 13851 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2006 23:03:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jan 2006 23:03:52 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 70.85.46.36 unknown Received: from ([70.85.46.36:37301] helo=prohost.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 93/38-61655-7D138C34 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:03:51 -0500 Received: (qmail 2990 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2006 23:03:49 -0000 Received: from prohost.org (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (70.85.46.36) by prohost.org with SMTP; 13 Jan 2006 23:03:49 -0000 Message-ID: <43C831D3.2040203@prohost.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:03:47 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jared@intuitivefuture.com CC: Andi Gutmans , Lukas Smith , internals@lists.php.net References: <43C67431.9090003@prohost.org> <3A366ACB-20D4-42C7-BBAE-46F643E3A91F@intuitivefuture.com> <878581203.20060112153625@ionzoft.com> <7.0.0.16.2.20060112154219.029d06c8@zend.com> <43C75FEE.7040908@php.net> <6C.F4.25674.EFD67C34@pb1.pair.com> <43C786E5.1020400@mysql.com> <43C7975A.2070504@php.net> <7.0.0.16.2.20060113083421.07b59728@zend.com> <42645.127.0.0.1.1137192308.squirrel@www.intuitivefuture.com> In-Reply-To: <42645.127.0.0.1.1137192308.squirrel@www.intuitivefuture.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Named arguments revisited From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) Each programming & scripting language has its strengths and areas of focus. Just because another language implements a feature, does not mean the rest should follow suit. What you fail to realize that every feature adds to the language complexity, making it more difficult to use, harder to debug and ultimately makes it slower. PHP's biggest strength since day one was simplicity, to sacrifice that, to allow someone to use something that has been hammered into their head in their CS class is beyond silly. Ilia