Re: Are there plans to allow anonymous functions as callbacks?

You need PHP 5.3 for that. Here's the RFC: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures On 3/4/2009 13:33, Richard Quadling wrote:

Hi. Quite a simple question (assuming I've got the terminology correct). Are there any plans to allow code like this (amended example taken from the array_map() documentation) ... <?php $a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); $b = array_map(function($n){return($n * $n * $n)}, $a); print_r($b); For me, this is cleaner than having a use-once, namespace-polluting function. Currently, this is producing a parse error. A real alternative though would be to allow nested functions... <?php function cube_array($a) { function cube($n) {

     return($n * $n * $n);

} return array_map("cube", $a); } $a = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); $b = cube_array($a); print_r($b); Ideally, cube() would not be visible outside of cube_array(). Scoped functions. Regards, Richard Quadling.

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