On Tue, April 17, 2012 6:23 pm, Jordi Boggiano wrote: > On 18.04.2012 00:54, Stas Malyshev wrote: >> One of the annoying things I've encountered in working with PHP was >> dealing with functions having long optional parameter lists, >> especially >> if you need to change only the last one - you have to copy all the >> defaults. Full named params implementation would solve it, probably, >> but >> before we have that here's an easier solution for part of the >> problem: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/skipparams >> >> Basically, it allows you to do this: >> >> create_query("deleted=0", "name",,, /*report_errors*/ true);
It might be worth mentioning in the docs edge cases like strtok. As you all know, I presume, the optional first param restarts parsing with a new string. When there is only one param, it continues parsing the previous first argument. As silly as this may seem to you experts, newbies will probably be confused by the optional argument syntax versus functions that change the parameter position... -- brain cancer update: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/search/label/brain%20tumor Donate: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FS9NLTNEEKWBE -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
