Re: [PHP4BETA] passing a method to usort

Personally I think this would be a worthwhile addition, that way you could enclose say, an xml parser, inside a class. Right now I tend to use a pseudo-class of mangled function names and global variables, not quite as clean as I would like. Peter On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Stig Bakken wrote: > chagenbu@wso.williams.edu wrote: > > > > Quoting Stig Bakken <Stig.Bakken@fast.no>: > > > > > It is the Zend compiler that recognizes "::" (as opposed to the > > > executor), so it's no wonder your example doesn't work. We could patch > > > call_user_function{,_ex} to look for "::" in the function name though. > > > > That would be good. It doesn't address the issue of being able to pass an > > _object_ method to usort() and similar functions, though - being able to pass an > > instance of a class, so that class member variables can be referred to from > > within the sort function... Any chance of that being possible? > > As far as I can see, that would require either a new data type or using > a user-defined construct like array($object, "method"). > > - Stig > -------------------------------------------------- Peter D. Kovacs KnowPost.com LLC Pb Engineer peter@knowpost.com --------------------------------------------------