Re: $arr = array('Hello', 'world'); $arr();

I consider this an improvement in terms of consistency w.r.t. callbacks, so +1 from me, good job! Best, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 18:21, Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/6/5 Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de> > >> That can lead to quite a bit of simplifications in code where you now have >> to check for is_array/is_callable/instanceof Closure and such. I like it.. >> >> > Exactly, and since our current $x = 'hello::world'; $x(); doesn't support > method calls, the array one can help on this just like the call_user_func() > approach with arrays. > > <?php > > class Hello { >   static public function world($x) { >     echo "Hello, $x\n"; >   } > } > > function hello_world($x) { >   echo "Hello, $x\n"; > } > > $callbacks = array( >   array('Hello', 'world'), >   function ($x) { echo "Hello, $x\n"; }, >   'hello_world' > ); > > foreach ($callbacks as $k => $callback) { >   if (is_callable($callback)) { >     $callback($k); >   } > } > > Output: > Hello, 0 > Hello, 1 > Hello, 2 > > -- > Regards, > Felipe Pena > -- Etienne Kneuss http://www.colder.ch