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Named arguments and open source projectsCategory: PHP, PHP
Scout APM helps PHP developers pinpoint N+1 queries, memory leaks & more so you can troubleshoot fast & get back to coding faster. There are a few well known open source maintainers within the PHP community against the use of named arguments, citing maintenance overhead and backwards compatibility problems as reasons not wanting to use them.
The second way named arguments can be used, is in combination with variadic functions, essentially becoming a — in my opinion cleaner — shorthand for passing arrays of data: This is possible thanks to named arguments playing well together with variadic functions: Passing a named argument list into this variadic create function will result in an array like this: Rewriting the above example without named arguments but arrays instead, would look like this: I know which one of these two approaches I prefer.
We really need to be more thoughtful about claiming that we cannot support named arguments in our open source packages because of backwards compatibility issues.
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The second way named arguments can be used, is in combination with variadic functions, essentially becoming a — in my opinion cleaner — shorthand for passing arrays of data: This is possible thanks to named arguments playing well together with variadic functions: Passing a named argument list into this variadic create function will result in an array like this: Rewriting the above example without named arguments but arrays instead, would look like this: I know which one of these two approaches I prefer.
We really need to be more thoughtful about claiming that we cannot support named arguments in our open source packages because of backwards compatibility issues.
If you want to stay up to date about what's happening on this blog, you can follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter: EmailSubscribe
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