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

From: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:52:38 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Closures and lambda functions in PHP
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It is possible to do it, but I don't see any reason to invest time into it. PHP scripts hardly ever use nested functions, and you always can access global variables through "global" or $GLOBALS. I don't see, why do we need another way to do the same. Thanks. Dmitry. Lars Strojny wrote: > Hi Dmitry, > > Am Freitag, den 20.06.2008, 16:19 +0400 schrieb Dmitry Stogov: >> No it won't. > > While I don't want to use it, it might be really confusing to our users > that it works different to closures (because the declaration of > functions and closures looks similar). Are there any internal > limitations why not to do it? > > cu, Lars

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