Re: An implementation of a short syntax for closures

From:	Frédéric Hardy	Date:	Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:50:32 +0000
Subject:	Re: An implementation of a short syntax for closures
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Hello !

I've always thought that just supressing the "function" keyword could work as a shorthand, i.e. having ([param1 [, param2 [, ...]]]){...}. Somewhat similar to Ruby's lambda shorthand: http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/ruby19.html#40 Huge +1 for that.

Code using closures will be more readable.

$add = | $x |=> | $y : $x |=> $x+$y;
      Not sure that it's really readable.

Moreover, it's more Perl/Ruby way than PHP way. Best regards, Fred -- ======================================================================== Frédéric Hardy : Architecte d'application/Admin. système/Ergonome CV : http://blog.mageekbox.net/public/cv.frederic.hardy.pdf Blog : http://blog.mageekbox.net Twitter : http://twitter.com/mageekguy ========================================================================