Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:21535 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 29612 invoked by uid 1010); 15 Jan 2006 09:24:38 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 29596 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2006 09:24:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jan 2006 09:24:38 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.74.107.235 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([80.74.107.235:44459] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id A5/6A-13436-4D41AC34 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:24:37 -0500 Received: (qmail 9310 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2006 09:24:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO zeev-notebook.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jan 2006 09:24:32 -0000 Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060115111835.0531d810@zend.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:20:28 +0200 To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Aidan Lister ,internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <43C9FF01.1060008@lerdorf.com> References: <11370812947200000@9866357972520000.9866341568840000> <43C688AE.80403@php.net> <43C69B2A.8000802@php.net> <21.B4.29075.F75A6C34@pb1.pair.com> <54.A8.13436.BE6F9C34@pb1.pair.com> <43C9FF01.1060008@lerdorf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Named arguments revisited From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski) At 09:51 15/01/2006, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >Aidan Lister wrote: >>Are the PHP group prepared to accept and implement a named parameters patch? > >As far as I am concerned it would depend on the patch. If you can >come up with a way to do it with requiring rewriting all 4000+ >functions out there, go for it. As Andi said, that's hardly the big issue (we could have provided it as a userland feature, not applicable to internal functions, or applicable to just a small subset of them). The big issue is whether or not we want that feature in the language, and the answer appears to be no. Zeev