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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:19:11 +0100
To: "Christian Schneider" <cschneid@cschneid.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP
From: michael.walter@gmail.com ("Michael Walter")

Hi,

On 3/22/07, Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com> wrote:
> 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.

Which seems to fit Andi's $_SCOPE proposal.

> >> 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

Is that like "enterprise" examples? ;)

Regards,
Michael