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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Closures and $this
From: chris_se@gmx.net (Christian Seiler)

Hello again,

> Discuss away!

I'm a little disappointed by the non-outcome of this debate. Very few
people have responded and most of them seem to agree proposal (A) should
be implemented, perhaps with the additional bind/bindTo as in my
proposal and perhaps not.

The problem here is: (A) was exactly the thing that was implemented and
that people started to have a problem with as soon as the first or
second beta of PHP 5.3 was released. And because the feedback came in so
late, Lukas & Johannes decided to remove $this support from closures for
PHP 5.3 in order to be able to decide that later on.

So basically we're at the same point where we were a little more year
ago: There's an RFC for this (the semantics of $this support were
discussed in the original closures RFC!) and the people who read it on
internals@ support it. However, I predict that if we implement exactly
the semantics that the RFC proposes, we will get into the same
discussion we had with PHP 5.3 just before the release of PHP 6... (or
5.4 should there be one).

So: What now?

Regards,
Christian