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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 07:47:12 +0200
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To: Hans Henrik Bergan <divinity76@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Draft - Closure self reference
From: zsidelnik@gmail.com (Eugene Sidelnyk)

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Think the way it is implemented in JS is better than `$lambda` variable. At
least it doesn't have BC breaks (does it?)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 7:38 PM Hans Henrik Bergan <divinity76@gmail.com>
wrote:

> something i'm missing from Javascript is the ability to give names to
> closures,
> this both gives closures the ability to reference themselves, but it
> also makes for meaningful stack traces, eg this is legal javascript:
>
> (function TheClosuresLocalName(){console.log(TheClosuresLocalName);
> throw new Error("look at my stacktrace!");})();
> - the name is optional, and only visible inside the closure itself,
> and unfortunately this is not legal in PHP, i wish it was.
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