Re: Re: An implementation of a short syntax for closures

In terms of thinking about typos, I'm sure there would be a solution to making pretty robust short hand lambdas. I think a more valid discussion would be whether PHP should have a short hand lamda notation. A lot of talk on here is against there even being a short-hand version, whatever syntax it is. I'm really trying to continue the discussion in to coming up with a good syntax everyone likes. If there is a good syntax maybe people against the idea might change their opinion. Personally I think it would be a good addition to the language. As other people have pointed out, a lot of common languages have a syntax for short hand lambdas. Also with the popularity of technologies such as LinQ increasing, I can see small lambdas becoming more and more common. In regards to typos, I don't think the following bit of code would be too easy to put a typo in to?: // Mapping: $a->select( :($x)=> $x->getName() ); On 04/08/2011 21:20, Sebastian Krebs wrote:

Just two examples, why I think, this is a not a good idea. Simple typos can produce hard to track errors. Its just confusing $x = 4; $y = ($x);{

    return $x*2;

} // and $x = 4; $x = ($x) {

    $y = $x*2;

}