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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Closures and $this: Please vote!
From: mike@rile.ca ("Mike Robinson")

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

FWIW, another non-internal-dev vote for (A+).

Best Regards

Mike Robinson