[wp-hackers] echo and return

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 01:35:51AM +1000, Michael G wrote:
> The array style paramaters is used throughout most of the PEAR 
> implementations (it's in their development guidelines I think). I 
> believe it is a good way to do things and it really can't hurt to be 
> consistent with PEAR. Might not hurt to have a look at what their 
> guidelines actually say.
> 
> Michael

PEAR apparently has nothing in its documentation that requires this type of array parameter, nor does it provide a method for doing so. As long as one remembers to keep the $defaults on the left-hand side of the array_merge, all should be ok. 

If one wanted to pass the parameters on to a second function and set all formatting at the very top level, the parameters could be merged a second time within the function as well. Though at this point, OO would probably be better than recursion.

-eli