Re: Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist

On 8/22/05, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > MB>>> * Anonymous functions. The real stuff, not just some odd string > MB>>> passed to create_function(). > MB>> > MB>>There were some others already asking for this, maybe we should at least > MB>>give it a thought if it is doable at all, anybody? > > Just out of curiosity, what's bad in create_function and how "real" ones > should be different? "Real" anonymous functions (as in, closures) should be able to capture variables from its lexical environment, e.g.: function adder($a) {return function($b) {return $a+$b;}} function index($i) {return function($a) {return $a[$i];}} I'm sure you can think of useful examples. Cheers, Michael