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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inconsistencies in 5.3
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)



Marcus Boerger wrote:
> Hello Dmitry,
> 
> Monday, August 4, 2008, 8:55:00 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi Marcus,
> 
>> see below
> 
>> Marcus Boerger wrote:
>>> Hello Internals,
>>>
>>>   please let's not introduce new inconsistencies. Rather lets make new
>>> stuff consistent with old stuff during the alpha phase of 5.3.
>>>
>>> 1) new keyword 'use'. Semantically it is the same as 'static' or 'global'
>>> so it should be used in the same location.
> 
>> For me 'use' is the best keyword as it says that closure uses variables 
>> from current content. (the same keyword is used for import from namespaces)
> 
> To be clear, I wasn't complaining about the keyword per se. I just prefer
> it to be inside the curly braces of a closure next to global rather than in
> front of it.
> 

No. The list of lexical variables is a part of the closure definition.

The earlier implementation had "lexical" keyword which worked as you are 
suggesting, but it was much unclear.

Thanks. Dmitry.