Re: Re: An implementation of a short syntax for closures
| From: | Jezz Goodwin | Date: | Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:02:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: An implementation of a short syntax for closures | ||
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Haha, yes indeed. In fact my Thunderbird was changing them to sad smileys until I disabled emoticons!
Colon is one of many possibilities.
Your argument goes back to whether or not PHP should have short-hand lambdas in general. It's looking like the majority of people think it shouldn't.
On 04/08/2011 21:53, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 21:17 +0100, Jezz Goodwin wrote::($x)=>$x+1;":(" looks quite sad. I also assume you know that : is a division. In a more complex situation this might, on first sight, be mistaken as a division by $x or such. Mind that a line of code typically is read way more often than written. Readability matters. PHP in many areas makes a good thing by having keywords here and there. johannes