On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > Andi Gutmans wrote: > > >... it'll encourage passing parameters in hashes which is something we > >really wouldn't want. > > > it is already common practice in userland so you are fighting > > a war that is already lost IMHO > > as soon as you have, say, more then five parameters things get > confusing, especialy if people have different habbits regarding > paramter ordering, see mktime
That's part of the problem. A good programming practice is to not have so many parameters to a function, if you do then you possibly have a problem. Better rewrite the function or split it in two or something similar. -Andrei "Claiming Java is easier than C++ is like saying that K2 is shorter than Everest." -- Larry O'Brien (editor, Software Development) -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]