It's much improved in 5.4. I think the grandparent post's point was that prior to 5.4, this would've looked like func(array("arg1", "name2"=>"arg2", "arg3"));

It's much improved in 5.4. I think the grandparent post's point was that prior to 5.4, this would've looked like func(array("arg1", "name2"=>"arg2", "arg3")); Which is much "uglier" than the new syntax.