Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP

Michael Walter wrote: > Right. But then those people add 2 + 2 and get frustrated because they > can't do the obvious ;) I find it all but obvious to being able to use non-local, non-global variables in PHP. It's one of the main PHP points IMHO that a variables is either local or explicitely accessed through $_GLOBALS (or super globals). It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling that I know everything else is undefined and won't clash. >> 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). He said real-life examples (-:C - Chris