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To: David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: lazy statements
From: danack@basereality.com (Dan Ackroyd)

On 24 July 2016 at 06:14, David Rodrigues <david.proweb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now back to topic, this circular dependency too occur with functions.

Yes, but the difference is in the surprise factor.

Two functions having a circular dependency ==> not too astonishing,
and easy to think about.

Reading the value of a variable having a circular dependency ==> give
up programming to become a farmer.

cheers
Dan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment