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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Revisiting the "Named Arguments" RFC
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)



On 12/01/14 17:27, Christian Stadler wrote:
> Am 12.01.2014 18:07, schrieb Kevin Ingwersen:
>> Am So. Jan. 12 2014 18:02:39 schrieb Andrea Faulds:
>>> On 12/01/14 09:14, Kevin Ingwersen wrote:
>>>> So therefore, I would actually suggest using colons. It does quite mimic the ObjC calling style, but it keeps the old-fashioned function style, which I honestly prefer (besides, adopting an ObjC messaging style syntax would be either ultra-hard or never accepted :D).
>>> It also looks like C#'s named arguments.
>> Oh really? Good to know, I never did anything more than Hello World with C#, because I dont trust in Mono a lot on OS X ^^;
>
> Personally as a layman I'd prefer that syntax, too. And for keywords:
> You could simply put them in quotes, making is similar to the
> object-syntax in JavaScript/ECMAScript. And even variable-handling would
> be out of the discussion I guess:
>
> $abc = 'class';
> test(foo: "oof", bar: "rab", 'function': 'moo', $abc: 'Foobar');
>

What if we combined two?

test(foo: "x", 'thing' => "y");

Where the : syntax is prefixed by a bare word which is the parameter 
name, while the => syntax is prefixed by an expression which evaluates 
to a string, which is the parameter name.

Though that might be confusing. It would be semi-consistent with 
existing array syntax, and we could then also add foo: to arrays.

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Andrea Faulds
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