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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC]
From: d.h.j.takken@freedom.nl (Dik Takken)

On 13-02-2020 19:19, Mike Schinkel wrote:
> But since I seem to be in the minority of caring about the name, let me propose the following which was influenced by Larry Garfield's most recent post.  Since it seems that people want the convenience of a short notation to get a closure, how about this:
> 
> function foo{}
> 
> foo::function  — Returns name of function
> foo::fn  — Returns closure for function 
> 
> Since using `fn` creates anonymous function closures it kinda makes sense that `::fn` would return a closure.

That is somewhat confusing in my opinion, the two class constants are
too similar. I would rather prefer:

    foo::function  — Returns name of function
    foo::closure   — Returns closure for function

Regards,
Dik Takken