On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:02, Hendy Irawan wrote: > On 4/18/05, Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:40, Hendy Irawan wrote: > > > Does anybody want named parameters? > > > > > > These are handy as template functions (like in Smarty), and these are > > > achievable since the oldest PHP by using associative arrays. It's > > > purely syntactic sugar, but it's a very convenient thing I guess (and > > > promotes long, long lists of parameters as well ;-) > > > > I for one would love them since they are very nice and concise for > > functions that take optional parameters and have a lot of them (such as > > generic search functions). It would save on the creation of a temporary > > array, and then having pass that to the function. But then, I also think > > this has been to the list before, and we don't currently have named > > parameters, so I'm guessing it got shot down already :) > Yeah, I think so... but I did a search on the archives and found > nothing (at least, I found nothing on the first N results... maybe the > full text indexer needed some tweaking) > > Anyways, what PHP alternatives to PHP are already available out there? > I think it's nice to have a "risk your life" PHP version that merges > all available patches that never got into the official PHP. People > building the "RYL" PHP will have to specify something like: > > ./configure --enable-named-parameters --enable-attributes > > to enable these features (or maybe --enable-all-experimental for the > most adventurous). Giving no optional features would build an exact > PHP as the official version. > > Does something like this already exist?
Not that I know of. I think such a concept would be interesting though, not as a RYL package, but as a power feature package-- especially if it had a mandate to maintain 100% compatibility with normal PHP. Then power users could use all of the existing scripts made for PHP and have all the power features of Power-PHP (not that it could be called Power-PHP without the blessing of Zend :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
