Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:28546 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 11014 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Mar 2007 13:09:37 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 10996 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2007 13:09:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Mar 2007 13:09:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=cschneid@cschneid.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=cschneid@cschneid.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain cschneid.com from 195.141.85.117 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: cschneid@cschneid.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 195.141.85.117 uf1.search.ch Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [195.141.85.117] ([195.141.85.117:45386] helo=smtp.rim.ch) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C2/8F-00793-D0082064 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:09:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rolig.search.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FF01EEA54; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:09:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.rim.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (search.ch [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27721-01; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:09:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.72] (ultrafilter-i [192.168.85.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rolig.search.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FFD1EEADE; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:09:21 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <46028001.7060204@cschneid.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:09:21 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Walter CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <86478A67-DCA2-4000-9EF0-DA4338E8389B@omniti.com> <45FEF9A5.4050409@zend.com> <1174338801.24632.124.camel@blobule> <45FEFDCE.7050100@zend.com> <1174339527.24632.129.camel@blobule> <45FF01FE.6070504@zend.com> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE185525@us-ex1.zend.net> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE18559A@us-ex1.zend.net> <40259.216.230.84.67.1174435351.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <877e9a170703220436l267d2648jc99aaaf9cccecfdd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <877e9a170703220436l267d2648jc99aaaf9cccecfdd@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at search.ch Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider) Michael Walter wrote: > Right. But then those people add 2 + 2 and get frustrated because they > can't do the obvious ;) I find it all but obvious to being able to use non-local, non-global variables in PHP. It's one of the main PHP points IMHO that a variables is either local or explicitely accessed through $_GLOBALS (or super globals). It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling that I know everything else is undefined and won't clash. >> If somebody has a real-life demonstrated NEED for the >> closures/scoping, by all means, bring it up. > > Plain old google brought up: > http://groovy.codehaus.org/Martin+Fowler's+closure+examples+in+Groovy > among other hits (Groovy syntax should be easy enough to follow). He said real-life examples (-:C - Chris