Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:34109 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14370 invoked by uid 1010); 19 Dec 2007 22:28:53 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14355 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2007 22:28:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Dec 2007 22:28:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:61815] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id DE/D6-06050-32B99674 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:28:53 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:28:47 +0200 Received: from [192.168.16.91] ([192.168.16.91]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:21:19 -0800 Message-ID: <47699960.1090101@zend.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:21:20 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: troels knak-nielsen CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <98b8086f0712150818n40056cedyf0aae7a5a08a27b7@mail.gmail.com> <200712172130.08216.larry@garfieldtech.com> <4FADC266-873E-4FD2-BEC8-28EA9D833297@procata.com> <200712172341.54372.larry@garfieldtech.com> <98b8086f0712191345h7fe11a7kc5d34b0369754c8f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <98b8086f0712191345h7fe11a7kc5d34b0369754c8f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Dec 2007 22:21:19.0295 (UTC) FILETIME=[7A7DDCF0:01C8428D] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PATCH: anonymous functions in PHP From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) > So how big a part of PHP's userbase is that? I'm guessing, it's small. If it's small, we don't need it in the language anyway. > True, but the people who will anguish over lack of closures, are > already tearing their hair out over create_function(). Having no function and knowing it is better than having something that looks like it but doesn't work. Saves time that would be spent unsuccessfully trying to make it work. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com