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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] __invoke() weirdness
From: ionut.g.stan@gmail.com (Ionut Gabriel Stan)

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PHP written in a JavaScript style is already possible with PHP 5.3. I 
started a little
thread about this on a forum but didn't get that much feedback:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=565576

It's not really what we're used to in JavaScript but it's very close.



On 12/25/2008 07:11, Lars Strojny wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 23.12.2008, 17:02 +0100 schrieb David Zülke:
> [...]
>    
>> This gives a fatal "Call to undefined method DateTime::getAtom()"
>>     $d = new DateTime();
>>     $d->getAtom = Curry::create(array($d, 'format'), DATE_ATOM);
>>     echo $d->getAtom();
>>      
>
> This is the same as the following:
>
> $obj = new stdClass();
> $obj->method = function() {
>     return "foo";
> };
> $obj->method();
>
> The first "method" is a property, the call to "method" is - well - a
> method call. Because PHP separates methods and properties in the class
> entry structure - and because we have magic methods like __set, __get
> and __call, there is no efficient and logical way how to search for
> properties with closure instances when a method is not found. We
> discussed that before and decided to let closures go out into the wild
> and think about adding a solution for prototype alike inheritance later.
>
> cu, Lars
>    


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