Re: Code References
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Mon, 19 May 2003 13:46:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Code References | ||
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On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 11:11, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 09:23 AM, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 10:47, George Schlossnagle wrote:
> >> Excuse my ignorance, but how does this differ from the features
> >> offered
> >> by create_function? (Other than having nicer aesthetics.)
> >>
> >
> > create_function is runtime for one thing, this would be compile time
> > (code reference, doesn't need to be relookedup).
>
> Isn't that different semantics than the variable assignments everywhere
> else in PHP? Sounds like it's more of a constant....
Nope. Its evaluated at runtime, compiled at compile time. Whereas
create_function() is compiled and evaluated at runtime.
-Sterling
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