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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP
From: troelskn@gmail.com ("troels knak-nielsen")

Actually it's the opposite. With create_function, you can bind
variables, by marshalling them to a string and embed them in the
function-definition. With a static syntax, this isn't possible.
However, this is only a problem, when you need to bind variables,
which isn't always the case and even then, there are other ways to
bind variables in runtime.
So it's different from create_function, in that it doesn't allow
binding of variables, but I don't see why that should stop us from
implementing, considering the benefits it gives in readability and
debugging.

--
troels

On Dec 16, 2007 7:57 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:
> I think the problem there is that this syntax wouldn't support external
> variables, and without them there's not much difference between that and
> create_function.
>
>
> troels knak-nielsen wrote:
> > What was the conclusion on Wez' patch from march [1]? The discussion
> > seemed to steer a bit off, on the discussion of scoping rules, but is
> > there any reason _not_ to implement Wez' patch in HEAD?
> > Even if it doesn't entirely replace create_function, it would be nice
> > to have as a compile-time alternative.
> >
> > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.www.php-dev/browse_thread/thread/a2c3296dc791369a/075209b288cb28de
> >
>
> --
> Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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