Re: Remove variable function and method calls

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Davey Shafik <davey@php.net> wrote: > You can call classname::$foo() and even $obj->$foo() with call_user_func(), should we get > rid of those too? Absolutely not. > I grant you that variable function calls are sometimes confusing, lambda functions are a better > way to do it perhaps, but just because something can be abused, doesn't mean it should be > removed, unless it's impeding further innovation (a la namespaced old style constructors). It's not abusing it's the horribly confusing syntax.