Marc Bennewitz, Stas,
> But I think adding "default" as new keyword is a big BC break!
> I personally also don't like it and asked myself why can't the parameter
simply skipped?
Default is already a reserved word AFAIK. But I've been thinking about
alternatives to parameter skipping syntax which brought me the Golang
blank identifier _ to mind:
create_query("deleted=0", "name", _, _, true);
Still not sure if it's better than default, though.
2015-01-14 16:15 GMT-03:00 Marc Bennewitz <[email protected]>:
> Hi Stas,
>
> I really like this RFC. It makes it simple to use defined defaults without
> the need to know about them of to updated.
>
> But I think adding "default" as new keyword is a big BC break!
> I personally also don't like it and asked myself why can't the parameter
> simply skipped?
>
> function foo ($a='a', $b='b') {}
>
> foo();
> foo($a);
> foo(, $b);
> foo($a,);
> foo(,);
>
> Is it possible to use the default parameter on inheritance?
>
> class Bar {
> function foo($a='a', $b='b') {}
> }
>
> class Baz extends Bar {
> function foo($a=default, $b=default) {
> // do something
> parent::foo($a, $b);
> }
> }
>
>
> Marc
>
>
> Am 02.09.2013 um 09:17 schrieb Stas Malyshev:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've finally took some time to revive the skipping parameter RFC and
>> patch. For those who doesn't remember what it is please see:
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/skipparams
>> TLDR version:
>>
>> The idea is to allow skipping parameters in function with optional
>> arguments so that this:
>> function create_query($where, $order_by, $join_type='INNER', $execute
>> = false, $report_errors = true)
>>
>> can be called like this:
>> create_query("deleted=0", "name", default, default,
>> /*report_errors*/ true);
>>
>> Instead of trying to remember what the defaults are.
>> The patch is here:
>>
>> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/426
>>
>> Any comments or feedback on the RFCs and the code are welcome,
>> especially pointing out the cases where it may not work (which means we
>> need more phpt's there :)
>>
>
>
> --
> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>