Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

On Mon, March 19, 2007 4:55 pm, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> You have to have a pretty esoteric function to need that kind of >> scope >> control, no? > > Depends on your background. Some people consider LISP intuitive > language > :) And if you work with Javascript, you probably would be doing it > daily > - most AJAX toolkits rely on heavy usage of anonymous functions. Not > sure it needs to be in PHP though. It might be cool thing, but it's > definitely becomes very confusing very fast. I almost finished my MS in CS with Artificial Intelligence concentration at DePaul, so I *was* one of those CS students with too much time on my hands. Then I worked at an AI think tank lab at Northwestern University for most of a decade using Lisp. I gotta say that while it was Really Nifty to know all about those esoteric closures, curries, and whatnot I have since forgot, mostly, I didn't need these things on a daily basis even at that job. So, yes, somebody somewhere "needs" this, but is it the kind of thing that belongs in PHP? I think not. By "this" I mean the ability to have the lexical closure carry its scope around with itself. I *WANT* to have a simple clean anonymous function syntax. Can't you just take the body of "create_function" with the syntax of the patch, and marry those two? How does the current create_function handle this same scope issue? -- 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?