Re: PATCH: Implementing closures in PHP

On Dec 23, 2007 2:23 AM, Christian Seiler <chris_se@gmx.net> wrote: > First of all: I don't quite understand what you mean when you want to > serialize a function (closure or not)? The opcodes? Ok, sure, with the > current PHP implementation you can serialize the variable used to CALL > the function (e.g. with $func = 'str_replace'; $func is only a string Admittedly, I got the idea, in relation to Wez' patch. There, it would be trivial to serialize/unserialize the function pointer. I suppose that isn't immediately possible, if the closure is a resource type. > and can be serialized). But where would you need that? (Ok, for normal > functions that are named this could actually be useful, but for > anonymous functions?) If a closure could be serialized, it would allow for continuation style applications. I'm not sure, how good idea this is in web applications anyway, so just ignore that. Just a minor note; The semi-colon after the closing brace, seems superfluous. Is there any reason for it? Otherwise excellent work there. -- troels