Re: Idea for better function callbacks (another syntactic sugar)

Yeah, that was part of the idea, the other being to make these callbacks semantically different from strings. Its just weird that a string is callable, isn't it? On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:03 PM Arvids Godjuks <arvids.godjuks@gmail.com> wrote: > пт, 26 окт. 2018 г. в 18:57, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>: > > > Den fre. 26. okt. 2018 kl. 17.43 skrev Larry Garfield < > > larry@garfieldtech.com>: > > > I believe the proposal for short lambas (which should get resurrected > at > > some > > > point) would handle this case well enough as well as help a dozen other > > > things. To wit: > > > > > > array_filter($names, |$x| ==> trim($x)) > > > > I still fail to see why it would be considered to have that over a > > perfectly encapsulted string for a callback, using a lambda/closure is > > just an extra runtime call for syntax sugar, that seems poor in my > > eyes. > > > > Right click on function::trim - Find Usages. Basically allows > to find all > usages of a given function, including the callback usage. > > > > > What would be ideal here, would be for functions to be first class > > citizens in callback contexts, like in C to avoid the quotation, > > however it clashes with constants. A hack you can do in userland could > > be something like: > > > > const trim = 'trim'; > > array_filter($names, trim); > > > > > > > > -- > > regards, > > > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > > kalle@php.net > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > Arvīds Godjuks > > +371 26 851 664 <+371%2026%20851%20664> > arvids.godjuks@gmail.com > Skype: psihius > Telegram: @psihius https://t.me/psihius > -- Best regards, Victor Bolshov