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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:28:39 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Named parameters
From: gm@gm.lv (Gints Murans)

Hi,

What happened to this RFC? This is a really great idea for php.

For example this function:

function getIdByTitle($title, $insert =3D false) {
	// find record
	// If no record find and $insert =3D=3D=3D true, insert new =
record and return the id
	// Return false
}

Reading over some old code, this way it would be a lot easier to =
understand what that second parameter boolean =3D true is:=20
	getIdByTitle('sample', insert =3D true)

than this way:=20
	getIdByTitle('sample', true)


Also great for skipping default parameters.


About syntax: $insert =3D> true seems kind of confusing:=20
	$insert =3D true;
	getIdByTitle('sample', $insert =3D> $insert)

My preference would be either - getIdByTitle('sample', insert =3D =
$insert) or getIdByTitle('sample', insert: $insert) with no parameter =
name prefixes.

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Gints Mur=C4=81ns