From: Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...>
Date: 2012-12-28T07:40:13+09:00
Subject: Re: When to use Hashed Parameters for method calls.



On 28/12/2012, at 12:06 AM, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@me.com> wrote:
> 
>> PS. To answer your original question, I personally don't like hashed params because they hide the interface, but I occasionally use them because sometimes they 'feel' right. Looking back over my code it is usually when I have a lot of default or optional params.
> 
> Using a Struct generated class might give a bit more type safety since
> all possible keys are laid out explicitly.

Yes, this is a good compromise, but it always feels odd to me to create such a short lived object. Though I guess the params Has is a short lived object too. 

Henry