PHP 8.0 feature focus: Named Arguments

Last week’s installment talked about the most contentious new feature of PHP 8.0. In our 10th and final installment, we’ll cover the formerly most contentious feature, one that somehow managed not only to generate little pushback this time around, but to become one of PHP 8.0’s top new features. In every programming language that has functions (that is, all of them), functions can be called by passing an ordered list of arguments to them as input parameters.