Re: Named params status
As a userland developer, I would love to see named parameters. They
are IMHO a much better way to achieve optional parameters skipping
than the "skipparams" RFC.
Also the named parameters look more "future-compatible" if PHP ever
added things like method overloading (which would be great, but that's
for another discussion).
As for the "majority of users don't want it implemented"; I would
probably say otherwise, because most people I spoke with really MISS
named parameters in PHP.
Pavel Kouril
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrea Faulds wrote:
>>
>> I know. I asked Nikita about this on IRC about a month or two ago. I think
>> he said he just didn’t want to deliver an incomplete feature?
>
> The RFC says that Nikita will not work on it if there is no demand. I am
> seeing many people do want it but personally this is another large bloat
> that I see little point to so should there not at least be some vote on
> whether it IS worth Nikita's time if the majority of users don't want it
> implemented? Having been through a major exercise bringing this under
> control using array parameters for variable data I don't want to have to
> start coping with yet another passing mechanism as third party libraries
> 'adopt new practices'!
>
> Since this RFC also pulls in other RFC's should the whole roadmap on this be
> part of the developing plan for PHP6? Deciding what areas are actually worth
> people spending time on. Certainly if parameter names are to evolve to use
> UTF-8 strings, this should be part of the development plan?
>
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