Code References

Hi, I figure I'll just throw this out into the wilderness, I want closures and function pointers in PHP. In other words I want the ability to do: $var = function ($a, $b) { return $a + $b; }; And then $var can contain a code reference to the anonymous function. Having code references is an infinitely useful feature in my experience, and I know other people have some really cool uses of closures for lightweight templating (with mod_perl.) [1] I'd also like function pointers, which are optimized callbacks of some sort, so you can go: function my_compare($a, $b) { if ($a > $b) return 1; if ($a < $b) return -1; return 0; } sort($ar, <my_compare>); And compare doesn't need to be resolved at runtime, but rather can be a compile time feature. -Sterling [1] I say code references on purpose. This doesn't need to mean full fledged closures, which are probably overkill (although, they would be nice too ;) -- "That stuff's easy compared to installing Horde" - Alan Knowles, In response to my applause for creating a LALR parser for PHP.