Re: T_AS in closures

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I was clicking on bugs.php.net/random today and I came across #54888, > which is a feature request for the following syntax: > > $foo = 'whatever'; > $bar = function() use ($foo as $baz) { /* use $baz here */ }; > > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54888 > > I don't know if other languages have it, but it seems nice and > considering how much developers prefer foreach() over other loops > because it allows them to "rename" the variable, I'm sure people would > love it. > > Has this been discussed before? What are your opinions on it? > > Regards, > Andrey Andreev. > There has been an RFC for this: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/useas IIRC the RFC was withdrawn because the reception was not very positive. You might want to have a look at the discussion, see http://markmail.org/message/q53myujswaesca2u and http://markmail.org/message/nrptrylgkarqrpxk. Nikita