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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Revisiting the "Named Arguments" RFC
From: php@tutteli.ch ("Robert Stoll")

Heya, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Ingwersen [mailto:ingwie2000@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:43 PM
> To: PHP internals
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Revisiting the "Named Arguments" RFC
> 
> Hello there.
> 
> Within one of the recent votes, I was reminded upon an RFC for named parameters/arguments - to be exact, this one:
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params
> 
> I just wanted to know if this RFC is still in discussion, has been dropped, or what else is currently being up with
it. Because in
> my opinion, that'd be a very useful addition - as many modern languages support this kind of feature already. The only
> language that I personaly am using that supports that is Objective-C - and in there, it is very useful. Although its
quite
> different - it's a different call-style entirely - I could imagine the implementation from the link above to be very
useful in
> PHP.
> 
> It would be great to know the current state of the RFC, as I didn't really see anything of its current state on the
page itself.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ingwie

Since the RFC has not included my concerns so far I am going to bring them up again. The included validation of
signatures is a huge BC break and thus a no-go for PHP 5.x IMO:
http://markmail.org/message/blcph3p377x4ycmc#query:+page:1+mid:jtfa52bzgsua7yrt+state:results
http://markmail.org/message/blcph3p377x4ycmc#query:+page:1+mid:u5y2pvzttbudkxqe+state:results