Re: Inline Lambda Functions

Hi Stefan, The point was not about array filtering or LINQ or any of that. It was about the plausibility of using a shorthand for closures. Instead of this..... array_filter($source, function($x){ return $x < 5; }); Being able to do this..... (or something like it). array_filter($source, $x => $x < 5); This would provide a much more friendly way of using callbacks. Lambdas have great uses, but I feel like they are underutilized in PHP. C#, for example, has made excellent use of a lambda-friendly syntax like the one above, and Java is planning something similar (for Java 8, I believe). From: Stefan Neufeind <neufeind@php.net> Date: June 28, 2011 2:20:39 PM CDT To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inline Lambda Functions On 06/28/2011 03:51 PM, Jarrod Nettles wrote: > There are two projects that I've been following for awhile now: PLINQ > and PHPLinq. > http://plinq.codeplex.com/ > http://phplinq.codeplex.com/ > Both of them have made very solid attempts at providing LINQ-like > functionality to PHP but with both, I've been a little frustrated > with the implementations, due to the wordy syntax that PHP lambda > functions require. [...] Hi, well, for your examples: Why not just array_filter() with an appropriate callback? Should handle it like you describe plinq does it, right? Regards, Stefan