On 13.04.2010, at 23:39, GM wrote:
> Personally, I would strongly prefer the caller syntax my_func('a', 'b', 'c'
> => 'd', $e => $f) just to because
>
> 1) it's consistent with array declaration syntax
> 2) it allows arbitrary names for parameters, which will become the
> array keys ... and can include funny characters
> 3) naked identifiers in PHP are used only for functions, classes and
> constants, so c => 'd' looks like a constant
> 4) it allows the flexibility of dynamically specifying parameter names,
> although this will probably be rarely needed
>
> My second favorite is my_func('a', 'b', c => 'd') ... which I consider worse
> but at least not as bad as my_func('a', 'b', c: 'd') ... which seems to come
> out of left field as it's not consistent with the rest of PHP syntax. Unless,
> of course, c: 'd' is going to be a shorthand for 'c' => 'd' ... which makes
> me ask ... if you guys are ever going to make a short array declaration
> syntax, will it look something like this: {'a'=>'b', 'c'=>'d'} or will it
> look like {a: 'b', c: 'd'} ?
Just stumbled over a post about SQL 2011 which also seems to get support for
named parameters for functions [1]:
"Named arguments in function calls. PostgreSQL 9.0 supports that, but using the
syntax foo(3 AS a) instead of what ended up in the standard, foo(a => 3)."
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[email protected]
[1] http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2010/04/news-from-sql-standard.html
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