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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:13:41 -0600 (CST)
To: "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: function call chaining
From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch")

On Tue, January 19, 2010 10:05 am, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I'd rather see two other things that are missing, support for
>> dynamic object and array de-referencing like
>> (new class)->method() and get_array()["index"].
>
> The second was next on my list, while the first seems to me kind of
> exotic - why create object only to call one method and immediately
> drop
> it? Why this method is not static then?
>
>> I honestly don't see func()()()() make anything better in the
>> world of a PHP programmer.
>
> You probably don't use closures, right?

I use closures, though rarely.

When I use one, I consider it exotic/obtuse/unusual enough to require
self-documenting code, with a temp variable whose name include
'closure'.

I do not want something as tiny as () to be all I have to clue in the
new guy to a closure pattern/paradigm/algorithm.

Maybe if I was typing all closures all day in PHP I'd see more need
for it, but are you really doing this that often?

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