Late to the party, but you can simply use strtr to “translate characters or replace substrings” <?php $hours = 2; $minutes = 24; $seconds = 35; // Option 1: Replacing %variable echo strtr( ‘Last time logged in was %hours hours, %minutes minutes, %seconds seconds ago’, [ ‘%hours’ => $hours, ‘%minutes’ => $minutes, ‘%seconds’ => $seconds … Read more
Why doesn’t C++ support named parameters? Because such feature has not been introduced to the standard. The feature didn’t (and doesn’t) exist in C either, which is what C++ was originally based on. Will it support it in a future version of the C++ standard? A proposal was written for it. But the proposal was … Read more
VBScript doesn’t support named arguments to procedures and functions. You need to change the argument list to positional: Workbooks.OpenText Filename_Argument, xlMSDOS, … VBScript also doesn’t recognize Excel constants (like xlMSDOS), so you need to look them up and replace them with their numeric values: Workbooks.OpenText Filename_Argument, 3, … And you must use explicit object references: … Read more
Update for Swift 2.0: Now functions behave identically to methods, and for both, by default: the first parameter has no external name; and the other parameters have an external name identical to the internal name. Other than that, the rules below still apply, except that the # shorthand syntax is now gone. Here’s a more … Read more
It does work, but only in Python 3. See PEP 3102. From glancing over the “what’s new” documents, it seems that there is no 2.x backport, so you’re out of luck. You’ll have to accept any keyword arguments (**kwargs) and manually parse it. You can use d.get(k, default) to either get d[k] or default if … Read more
Dart has two types of optional parameters: named and positional. Before I discuss the differences, let me first discuss the similarities. Dart’s optional parameters are optional in that the caller isn’t required to specify a value for the parameter when calling the function. Optional parameters can only be declared after any required parameters. Optional parameters … Read more
No, it is not possible (before PHP 8.0): if you want to pass the third parameter, you have to pass the second one. And named parameters are not possible either. A “solution” would be to use only one parameter, an array, and always pass it… But don’t always define everything in it. For instance : … Read more
JDBC does not support named parameters. Unless you are bound to using plain JDBC (which causes pain, let me tell you that) I would suggest to use Springs Excellent JDBCTemplate which can be used without the whole IoC Container. NamedParameterJDBCTemplate supports named parameters, you can use them like that: NamedParameterJdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate = new NamedParameterJdbcTemplate(dataSource); MapSqlParameterSource … Read more
ES2015 and later In ES2015, parameter destructuring can be used to simulate named parameters. It would require the caller to pass an object, but you can avoid all of the checks inside the function if you also use default parameters: myFunction({ param1 : 70, param2 : 175}); function myFunction({param1, param2}={}){ // …function body… } // … Read more
There are two related concepts, both called “keyword arguments“. On the calling side, which is what other commenters have mentioned, you have the ability to specify some function arguments by name. You have to mention them after all of the arguments without names (positional arguments), and there must be default values for any parameters which … Read more