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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Closures and $this: Please vote!
From: ionut.g.stan@gmail.com ("Ionut G. Stan")

A+, but I'm not an internal dev.


On 12/15/2009 21:46, Christian Seiler wrote:
> Hi Lukas,
>
>> Call for a vote. This time around people cannot claim to not have had
>> time to review the issue. Also back then we tried to play it safe
>> because of the short time before we were to release. This time there is
>> more time for this to mature if needed inside svn.
>
> Ok, so then I call for a vote. Again, here are the options:
>
> (0): No $this in closures, keep it that way. (keep PHP 5.3 behavior)
>
> (A): Original closures implementation:
>           $this is always the object context at
>           closure creation. No possibility to do
>           $someObject->closureProperty(...) and thus
>           no possibility to extend objects!
>
> (C): Javascript-like behaviour: Bind $this only when calling
>       the closure as object method, else $this is undefined.
>
> (D): JS-like behaviour on top of (A).
>           Please look at the RFC as to why I consider it to be a
>           *REALLY*, *REALLY* bad idea.
>
> (A+): (A) + Closure::bind&  Closure->bindTo for rebinding
>        if this is wanted&  the possibility to call a closure as an object
>        method. (See last section of RFC for details)
>
> My vote: (A+)
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
> PS: Note that I removed (B) from the possible options since I believe it
> to be an EXTREMELY bad idea if one thinks it through. It was only added
> to the RFC in order to give an overview over what was discussed
> previously. Unless someone can make an extremely compelling case why I'm
> wrong in this respect, I will refuse to implement (B).
>

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