Re: alpha1 status update

On 30.07.2008, at 22:57, Dmitry Stogov wrote:

- remove __toString() from closures (Johannes/Dmitry)

What is wrong here? What behavior do you prefer? I just missed the discussion.

This was in the thread "closures questions" and later there were some votes by Stas and Marcus in favor of its removal in the "towards 5.3 alpha1" thread. Here is a comment by Christian about the topic:

so do we even want the toString() method?

IMHO we should drop toString from Closure.

There is one case which *may* cause problems: function doSomething ($callback) { if (!is_callable ($callback)) { throw new Exception (...); } // special treatment if ($callback == 'default') { ... } else { ... } } Here, the comparison of $callback with 'default' will yield a notice that $callback couldn't be converted. The comparison will fail correctly, of course, but it could cause some confusion. The correct way of comparing would obviously be using ===, that won't cause these hickups.

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