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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] [RFC] Closures and lambda functions in PHP
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

Yes, I would rather put it in 5.4 (or whatever the next version) is and 
make sure that along with lambdas/closures we have a way of referring to 
functions/methods as first-class objects.

-Andrei

Marcus Boerger wrote:
> Hello Stanislav,
> 
>   nicely put but not in agreement with the PHP world. First we cannot add
> a new feature like this in a mini release as it comes with an API change.
> And second PHP is not anywhere close so we'd have to do it in a PHP 5.4
> and personally I would like to avoid it.
> 
> marcus
> 
> Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 9:19:56 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
> 
>>> Johannes, what's your take on this one for 5.3?
> 
>> I'm not Johannes and I didn't review the proposal in detail yet, but I 
>> think we have enough for 5.3 right now. I'd think we better concentrate 
>> on tying the loose ends and rolling beta out and then moving towards the 
>> release than adding more and more features and never releasing it. 5.3 
>> is not the final release until the end of times, there will be 5.4 etc. 
>> and 6, so there will be ample opportunity to add stuff. And 5.3 has 
>> enough stuff to be released, there's no rush to add more new things, 
>> especially radically new ones. My opinion is that we better take some 
>> time with it and not tie it to 5.3.
>> -- 
>> Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
>> stas@zend.com   http://www.zend.com/
>> (408)253-8829   MSN: stas@zend.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
>  Marcus
> 
>