Re: Introduce the abiltiy to use the first-call-callable syntax on non-static methods, statically

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, at 10:08 AM, Robert Landers wrote: > In my mind, Test::Func(...) should be treated the same as ['Test', > 'Func'] or 'Test::Func' until it is called and if some fancy framework > wants to do something special with the closure, it can do so. FWIW, I > didn't even know this syntax checked anything until today. I can think > of a number of cases where delaying the error to actual execution is > beneficial. > > 1. Just because the method/object doesn't exist, doesn't mean it won't > exist by the time it is called -- this is PHP after all. > 2. I can have a file with 100 million of these things without > triggering any autoloading. > 3. PHPStorm currently doesn't trigger this syntax as an error. This ship has long since sailed. Test::func(...) produces a \Callable object, using the Closure::fromCallable() mechanism internally. One important advantage (and why Nikita favored it over most other callable syntaxes) is that it respects scope visibility better than passing around a buncha strings. Changing that at this point is a major API break that is not going to happen. --Larry Garfield