Re: Could we kill call_user_func?

Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Stas Malyshev ><smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> > Also, AFAIR, call_user_func() doesn't work with functions using >> references >> > in args. >> >> Use call_user_func_array() for that, it supports refs. >> > >Isn't it since 5.3 or so ? Before 5.3 call_uer_func_array() could convert copied values in the array to references, something like <?php $v = 42; $a = array($v); func f(&$param) { $param = 0; } call_user_func_array('f', $a); echo $v; // prints 0 ?> "worked", while obviously being wrong. This was fixed. Anyways, both call_user_func() and call_user_func_array() have their place, one for doing dynamic stuff, secondly for compatibility, no need to get rid of those. Adding syntactical sugar for calling things is a different question, but a key element of the PHP language design is to have verbosity, so that even people who don't know all constructs have a chance to search for it. We're getting rid of this slowly (i.e. due to things like $a = [ ] ) but we houldn't loose this idea completely. johannes