Doc #61857 [Csd]: Extra clarification around closures required

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61857&edit=1 ID: 61857 Updated by: salathe@php.net Reported by: jon at sprig dot gs Summary: Extra clarification around closures required Status: Closed Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: Irrelevant PHP Version: 5.3.11 Assigned To: salathe Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-11-18 11:02:26] salathe@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of salathe Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=335191 Log: Basic closure examples (doc bug #61857) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-02-01 13:32:59] salathe@php.net I agree with the bug reporter, perhaps an extra intermediary example could be added showing super-simple cases of closing over variables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-02-01 10:36:19] krakjoe@php.net I'm not able to see what the documentation looked like for 5.3, having reviewed the documentation of today, I do not see a problem in the description or any of the examples provided. So, I'm going to close the bug. Feel free to report a new bug, for a supported, stable version of PHP, if the information is still not satisfactory in some way. Thanks for taking the time to make PHP better :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-26 14:25:18] jon at sprig dot gs Errr, oops, that was supposed to show $closurefunction("hello"); // You may expect "hello town", but it will return "hello world" still because the use ($vars) is as per when it is defined, not when it is called. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-04-26 14:11:09] jon at sprig dot gs I should add, having just seen something on StackOverflow, there should be another case to list in that example: <?php $external = 'world'; $closurefunction = function ($internal) use ($external) { echo $internal . ' ' . $external . "\r\n"; } $external = 'town'; $closurefunction("hello"); // Will return "hello town" ?> I don't know if this is indeed the case, but that's what the comment here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1065188/in-php-5-3-0-what-is-the-function-use-identifier-should-a-sane-programmer-us#comment885456_1066219 suggests ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61857 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61857&edit=1