Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

From:	Michael Walter	Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:36:14 +0000
Subject:	Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP
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Hi, On 3/21/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:

I think solving the common need for 99% of the people with a nice simple clean anonymous function is PHP way.

Right. But then those people add 2 + 2 and get frustrated because they can't do the obvious ;)

If somebody has a real-life demonstrated NEED for the closures/scoping, by all means, bring it up.

Plain old google brought up: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Martin+Fowler's+closure+examples+in+Groovy among other hits (Groovy syntax should be easy enough to follow). Regards, Michael