Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:28549 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51945 invoked by uid 1010); 22 Mar 2007 14:38:25 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51930 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2007 14:38:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Mar 2007 14:38:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stefan.walk@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stefan.walk@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 64.233.184.233 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stefan.walk@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.233.184.233 wr-out-0506.google.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [64.233.184.233] ([64.233.184.233:20873] helo=wr-out-0506.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 06/40-46365-ED492064 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:38:23 -0500 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 57so671942wri for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:38:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XlKWRrM9nBGFFFmiP4N6We6r9rPuVn0bozWM52IzFouT62wK3A8M5hTkznc7BZUy/yxFjDlFM2NbMudKFmxE4xXrCMnzmqb60brbRi53KJJA5DZafsGe+tQZteXzl1V+Owh9eyM5Pn9/PNFQCA+eUtZMSDe1nII4pAzAnlOMsrI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SSFNll2tGYkbvJMb5mW2xplv+hFb9xSspeLOiSTE6pD4GrPqN46+N+L1YoSL3wsxMFnog/AUeF9l5CBfeN5FLkv8s+eEmoZdTl1PTYkJGvzFfGJwdslYK63mIDO1GSzO38HpzLxgHv7+Yz7w2+K/NpOvwrDAjsqCrPIVRdc++6A= Received: by 10.114.46.1 with SMTP id t1mr624370wat.1174573916719; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.94.12 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:31:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4858f9d90703220731g3752d1e8w368f59f30ddb8086@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:31:56 +0100 To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <46028001.7060204@cschneid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <86478A67-DCA2-4000-9EF0-DA4338E8389B@omniti.com> <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> <46028001.7060204@cschneid.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP From: stefan.walk@gmail.com ("Stefan Walk") On 22/03/07, Christian Schneider wrote: > >> 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 function sort_by_key($key) { return function($a, $b) { if ($a[$key] < $b[$key]) return -1; if ($a[$key] == $b[$key]) return 0; return 1; } } $a = array( array('id' => 0, 'first_name' => 'john', 'last_name' => 'connor'), ... ); usort($a, sort_by_key('last_name'));