It feels like an anti-pattern, but I've been burned so many times by forgetting what order things go in, and not wanting to waste the 10 seconds to go look, tha

It feels like an anti-pattern, but I've been burned so many times by forgetting what order things go in, and not wanting to waste the 10 seconds to go look, that in a lot of methods if I have more than 2 parameters, I'll convert it to an array. the associative array, thus giving me the named attributes. It's a bit hackety, but the new named params looks like a much more elegant solution. One issue also is if you have a method that takes 3 arguments and the 2nd is an integer not a string, and you pass a string you'll get an error... using an array, you can just test if the array key exists or not, and skip functionality as dictates by what's passed in.