Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:53 -0400, Sean Coates wrote: > > I'm not arguing the preservation of the exact value of $rev when the > > anonymous function was created (as would be the case with a closure). > > I'm thinking of the variable being whatever is defined in the parent > > regardless. As in my proposal, the seek could search all the way up to > > the top in which case the $rev would be found if it had been defined as > > expected. At any rate, I guess this is diverging from the real > > discussion of anonymous functions :) > > If you've ever tried to hack on the source to anything that you didn't > write that also uses globals throughout (Gallery2, for example), you > know how hard it is to track down a single layer of scope that can be > defined [somewhere else]. > > Tracking this up the chain like a bubbled exception sounds like a > nightmare for debugging/comprehension, and IMO it's too magical. > > One layer of scope might be useful: $_PARENT ? > More than that, and my head starts to hurt. Well I did originally suggest defaulting to the parent scope with options for advanced users to climb higher :) Just because there are unwashed masses as Richard Lynch likes to call it, doesn't mean we all need to suffer their limitations. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'