Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Closures and lambda functions in PHP

Dmitry Stogov escreveu:

I don't like "lexical" keyword, because it can be used anywhere in function (e.q. inside "if" or loop statement), however lexical variables must be the part of lambda function definition.

I agree with Dmitry: Lexical variables belong to lambda function definition. It makes more sense to me. But I also agree that the proposed syntax might be a little misleading.

We can think about some better syntax, like function ($x, $y) ($a, $b, $c) {};

This looks better

function ($x, $y) [$a, $b, $c] {};

Array confusion is to be expected with this syntax, I don't like it. FWIW, I'd like to see this on 5.3. regards Rodrigo Saboya

I like "|" separator more, but the syntax of definition is not so important for me. It just must be clean, and the "lexical" keyword doesn't provide clean definition. I don't like the idea to add methods at runtime, as it can break shared data structures in multi-threaded environment. Thanks. Dmitry.