Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

Richard Lynch wrote:

I suspect that you could get away with JUST using global and/or static as they exist now, not introduce yet another scoping keyword, and anything that *NEEDS* to be done with an anonymous function can be done. Does anybody really *NEED* a variable whose scope is non-global and captured at the time of the func definition, carried over beyond the scope of that until it's executed?... Somehow I think you're just complicating it "because you can" rather than because anybody really NEEDS this.

Objects provide for functions with state (methods and properties), in a way that doesn't cause headaches with scoping. So although I would love the convenience of closures in certain places, I can't argue that there is a NEED for them. -- Chad Daelhousen I've been programming for about 15 years, but it's only in the last couple that I've come to a real understanding of it all.