Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21528 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67244 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Jan 2006 02:14:30 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67229 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2006 02:14:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jan 2006 02:14:30 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 129.41.69.137 mail.dealnews.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([129.41.69.137:64408] helo=mail.dealnews.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 3F/ED-61655-58E58C34 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:14:29 -0500 Received: (qmail 11121 invoked by uid 105); 14 Jan 2006 02:14:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.6.4?) (10.1.6.4) by 0 with SMTP; 14 Jan 2006 02:14:26 -0000 Message-ID: <43C85E82.8060905@dealnews.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:14:26 -0600 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 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> <43C831D3.2040203@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: <43C831D3.2040203@prohost.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Named arguments revisited From: brianm@dealnews.com (Brian Moon) Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > 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. yeah, this is exactly why over complicated OOP stuff will never be in PHP. Oh, wait..... =) Brian Moon Phorum Dev Team