i can’t follow their argumentation on messier code because on the other hand they implement labeled breaks, which in my opinion is really totally useless (at least i never missed them in my seven years of php programming experience) and really makes messier code if used a lot.

on the other hand named parameters would help make the code more readable without having to look in the API documentation if you read other ones code.

so i’m not sure if the argumentation in the meeting notes is really what they think about this feature or if there are other – political – reasons not to implement named parameters.

it reminds a bit on the discussion about namespaces. suddenly someone committed a working patch, and the discussions about whether to implement or not to implement namespaces were gone.

thanks again for your article.