Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

On Aug 15, 2005, at 2:52 PM, sebastian wrote:

W4: Better lambda/anonymous functions and debugging for them. Consider Perl's anonymous functions which disappear as the references to them disappear. See the create_function() docs for notes about "memory leaks."

Well, Perl subroutines are first class objects, while PHP functions are not. That having been said, one of the number one things I miss from perl is being able to say: $sub = { ... }; The nice part is that you don't need to do wacky escaping inside the text for the function. It would be swell for PHP to support: $func = function ($a,$b,$c) { // ... } and also require no escaping (even while using the existing create_function symbol table storage semantics).