On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Markus Fischer wrote:
> > What other way do we have to specify arbitray optional
> > parameters without an ordering? Teh disadvantage of optional
> > parmeters is when you need to only set the last one, you'll
> > have to define all preceding optional parameters too.
>
> How does the MySQL C API handle this?
>
> I think using array() is pretty sucky. Look at the following example and
> I'm sure you're planning on it getting much worse.
> mysql_connect("foo", array("bar" => 1, "hello" => 2));
>
> >
> > For functions like mysql_connect() the performance impact is
> > negligible (methinks).
>
> I don't think it'll always be negligible.
> It might not always be a bad idea but I think that if we support this easy
> to use function we're going to see this kind of stuff pop-up in more
> places than the very few places which just can't do without.
I'm with Andi here, passing hashes to PHP functionsas parameters doesn't
make much sense to me. The current way suits fine, but maybe this should
be allowed too (as Hartmut wrote): function (foo,,bar);
Derick
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