2006/4/28, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Martin Alterisio schrieb: > 2006/4/28, Dave Goodchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Hi all - I am attempting to solve some maddening behaviour that has me >> totally stumped and before I take a blade to my throat I thought I would >> pick the brains of the group/hive/gang. >> >> I am working on a viral marketing application that uses multipart emails >> to >> notify entrants of their progress in the 'game'. I have a demo version >> which >> works fine, and the current rebranded version was also fine until the >> client >> asked for some changes then POWWWWW! >> >> I will try and define the issue as simply as I can. I am passing 11 >> arguments to a function called sendSantaMail (don't ask) and as a sanity >> check I have called mail() to let me know the values just before they are >> passed in to the function. I get this result: > > > sendSantaMail???? That's just not a *declarative* way of naming a function. Do you know what "santa" means? No? so how can you tell it's not declarative. Santa could be a coded Mailer and that functions uses that specific Mailer Deamon called "santa" to send mails.
Yeah you're right, I was thinking the exact same thing a while after I posted that. Maybe it was a correct name in the context used, but, I still think "Santa" is a really misleading name for a mailer, and not to mention that a mass mailer identifying itself as "Santa mailer" in the headers is asking to be send directly to spam. Anyway, I was wrong.
Then, 11 arguments???? Errr, passing an associative array with the email > parameters wouldn't have been a cleaner and better option? He just told he passes 11 arguments, never told how he does that.
Well, if somebody tells you a function has 11 arguments what would you think?
