Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:69010 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55878 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2013 14:13:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Sep 2013 14:13:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 198.187.29.239 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 198.187.29.239 imap1-1.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from [198.187.29.239] ([198.187.29.239:41316] helo=imap1-1.ox.registrar-servers.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B6/B7-15730-B7A70325 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:13:16 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB09200077 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:13:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.registrar-servers.com Received: from oxmail.registrar-servers.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.registrar-servers.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IzKnuDAd3pwY for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:13:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.200] (unknown [94.10.74.149]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C1A59200056 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:13:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <52307A60.9050504@ajf.me> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:12:48 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Named parameters From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 11/09/2013 13:16, jbondc@openmv.com wrote: > I'm still undecided about 'mixing' positional & named arguments: An > example use case for **kwargs here: > http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/ If you declare: > request($method, $url, ...$args) Would $args collect 'method' and > 'url' ? request(method => 'post', url => 'foo/'); No. With positional arguments: function foo($bar, $foobar, ...$x) {} foo(1, 2); Then $x will be empty, since it only collects "left-over" arguments, I suppose. The same applies for named arguments. In the case you used, $args would be empty, as $method and $url pick up those named arguments. ---- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/