Bug #62078 [Com]: Closure instantiation and chaining

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62078&edit=1 ID: 62078 Comment by: dan dot lugg at gmail dot com Reported by: dan dot lugg at gmail dot com Summary: Closure instantiation and chaining Status: Open Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related PHP Version: 5.4.3 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I apologize if the bug category is not correct; there didn't appear to be a "Syntax" category or related. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-05-20 17:34:36] dan dot lugg at gmail dot com Description: ------------ When you "instantiate" a closure through the function(){} syntax, you cannot chain the closure method bindTo() from the instantiation. While this is trivial, considering static Closure::bind(), it seems inconsistent with efforts to allow method invocation on instantiation of other objects. Test script: --------------- $function = (function(){ /* ... */ })->bindTo($object); Expected result: ---------------- $function should contain the instantiated and re-bound closure. Actual result: -------------- Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '->' (T_OBJECT_OPERATOR) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62078&edit=1