Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

On Mon, March 19, 2007 3:35 pm, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:20 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: >> On Sun, March 18, 2007 6:41 pm, Wez Furlong wrote: >> > We've been daydreaming about the ability to do something like this >> in >> > PHP: >> > >> > $data = array("zoo", "orange", "car", "lemon", >> > "apple"); >> > usort($data, function($a, $b) { return strcmp($a, $b); }); >> > var_dump($data); # data is sorted alphabetically >> >> I'd LOVE it if there was SOME difference between this and a normal >> 'function' definition... >> >> I guess we're kind of stuck with 'create_function' being the mess >> that >> it is. >> >> But perhaps something like 'temp_function' or 'local_function' or >> 'lexical_closure' or something similar. Even 'horse' [*] would be >> fine by me. >> >> I think it muddies things too much to have it just be 'function' >> with >> no name after it. >> >> +1 > > A function with a name is no longer anonymous ;) I am not suggesting that there be a name. I am suggesting that the reserved keyword for an anonymous function should not be 'function', the same as a normal function. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?