Re: [RFC]

On 13 February 2020 18:19:08 GMT+00:00, Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net> wrote: >Eloquently maybe, but of limited vision. I think that's a rather negative way of putting it; there was a request for use cases, and you have supplied some, so thank you. :) An idea I had earlier which might solve some of them is if what was returned was not a normal Closure instance, but a new class like FunctionReference. It could then "remember" the name of the function wrapped, and implement __toString, Serializable, etc. It could inherit from Closure, so instanceof checks would work, and bindTo would return a normal Closure. I'm sure there's downsides I haven't thought of yet, but I thought I'd throw the idea into the mix. A possible future direction would then be to have ::class return some kind of ClassRef object, with the obvious downside that it would no longer pass string type hints without casting. I'm also not sure what the object would do, other than feel nicer from a type system point of view. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]