Re: [RFC] Closure::call and Function Referencing as Closures

On 6 Aug 2014, at 16:01, Ralph Schindler <ralph@ralphschindler.com> wrote: > When you put it like this, that further enhances my argument for adding > a call() and/or a bindCall(). Having to rely on __invoke() means > you're coding around and relying on an implementation detail, as opposed > to the class's published API. __invoke *is* in the published API, it’s just not seen properly by Reflection or the docs. Yes, internally it’s implemented weirdly, but it is part of the API proper. > It would be nice to be able to call closure in an object oriented way, > in addition to the language-level call $func() and the > functional/procedural way to call it call_user_func($func), after all, at current it seems > OO-isms are more rampant in PHP than other programming paradigms. Use () or __invoke(). Unfortunately you can’t do ->foo()() just now, sure, but I believe Nikita’s Uniform Variable Syntax fixes that, so it’s not a problem. ->call doesn’t cater to this use case. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/