On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
- I don't like the idea of passing parameters through a call chain –
it's just not how things are really done in PHP, and it leads to all sorts of bizarre behaviour (like the bug mentioned above). It's not really in conformance with standard MediaWiki syntax. I don't see that it confers any advantages over named parameters.
If you can't do everything in one call (or chain of calls), you need to create temporary variables. I bet people are not going to like that either. Call chains are very flexible and readable (in my opinion at least). It could be possible to add parameters already in Message::key(). It actually already allows that, but as an array. I'd actually prefer if it too took varargs instead, since I dislike PHP's array syntax.
I guess I don't take issue with the syntax so much as the implementation, it doesn't behave as you would expect it to.
My proposal allows the use of chained syntax without the awkward behaviour illustrated by Roan.