Bug #70846 [Nab]: Defect?Get syntax error when declaring a variable of anonymous method in class
Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70846&edit=1
ID: 70846
User updated by: vainman at foxmail dot com
Reported by: vainman at foxmail dot com
Summary: Defect?Get syntax error when declaring a variable of
anonymous method in class
Status: Not a bug
Type: Bug
Package: *General Issues
Operating System: all/allmost
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Thank you for your replying.
I didn't mean it is a bug. I should have changed "Bug Type" to "Feature/Change
Requeset", and I am sorry that i haven't.
I just feel strange why i can't initialize a class member or static member with closures, but
initializing normal(global or local) variables is OK. Or why a closures isn't a constant
values. I used to think it is designed because of some special reason, and I can't find the
reason.
I am sorry about disturbing you about "such a little thing".
Just ignore this page.
Previous Comments:
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[2015-11-03 20:45:02] requinix@php.net
You can only initialize variables to constant values. Like 1 or "foo" or array(). You can
use some operators so long as the result is still constant, like 1+2 or
"foo"."bar".
You cannot use closures.
More: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/const_scalar_exprs
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[2015-11-03 17:00:56] vainman at foxmail dot com
Description:
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Declaring a global or local variable of a anonymous method like below is OK:
----------begin----------------
$func = function($a) {
return $a;
};
----------end------------------
But in class(as public, protected, private, static, or member variable .etc) it get syntax error,
like the code below
----------begin-----------------
class A{
public $func = function($a){
public $func = function($a){
return $a;
}
}
}
----------end------------------
the error info says "PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION, expecting
')'".
This seems make no sense to write a anonymous method, because we can just write a member method.
Actually, what I want to do is, I want to do something like the code beblow in some cases, it get
the same error:
----------begin----------------
class B{
private static $a = array(
function($a) { return 1; },
function($b) { return 2; }
);
}
----------end-------------------
I guess, the PHP interpreter regard the key word "function" within class but not in other
fuction as the class's member method. But in above case it is a anonymous method.
Is this a defect of PHP interpreter or it is designed?
If this is designed, can you explain the reason?
Will you fix/change it?
Test script:
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<?php
$func = function($a) {
return $a;
};
class A{
public $func = function($a){
public $func = function($a){
return $a;
}
}
}
class B{
private static $a = array(
function($a) { return 1; },
function($b) { return 2; }
);
}
?>
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