ID: 17076
Comment by: pete at teamlupus dot hu
Reported By: csaba at alum dot mit dot edu
Status: Suspended
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: All
PHP Version: 4.2.0
New Comment:
Hi,
is there any follow-up on this subject? It's a really must-have IMHO,
just very unfortunate that it needs a major change to the engine :( Is
it an issue with the new Zend engine in PHP5, too?
Previous Comments:
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[2002-05-07 14:30:38] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is not one of the easily done changes to the engine and to the
language. This has come up before a few times in the past and I suggest
participating discussion about this on either php-dev or the engine2
mailing list. Suspending until a final consensus is reach (if not
already and I just missed it).
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[2002-05-07 12:51:59] csaba at alum dot mit dot edu
This is an enhancement request for about the only thing that I can
think of offhand that exists in VB that I really miss in PHP:
I would like to be able to declare, say,
function myFunc ($arg0, $arg1="One", $arg2="Two", $arg3=3)
and call it thusly: myFunc ("Hi", , "Mom")
In other words, if I omit an argument to a function where the value is
defaulted (in our example we are talking about position 1, in addition
to position 3), PHP should take the default value instead of
complaining. Of course I can always figure out what the default value
was in the first place by checking the function definition and plunking
it into my call explicitely, but isn't this the same convenience that
the current method tries to offer us? This is just a proposal to extend
it.
Motivation: This comes up frequently for me because I have several
functions which take 3 parameters which are normally defaulted, and
usually at most one varies. So unless it's the first of the three, I
have to fill in extra values that distract from what's going on.
Thanks for considering this,
Csaba Gabor
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