Re: Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:02:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP | ||
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Anthony,
It may be disagreeable from your perspective, but I (and many others) find this to be a very useful construct. And I hate to invoke "other languages" argument, but there is a reason that something like this is available in many modern languages - it is useful.
-Andrei
Antony Dovgal wrote:
On 20.12.2007 09:57, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:being able to do the following (and not to worry about runtime compilation) is a good reason on it's own: array_filter($my_data, function($test){ return 3 === ($test % 4) });Oh, my.. This code clearly demonstrates why a syntax like this should not be allowed. Ever.