Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

--- Sean Coates <sean@caedmon.net> 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. echo $_PARENT['_PARENT']['_PARENT'][...] ;-) - Peter > > S > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com