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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: function call chaining
From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> When I use one, I consider it exotic/obtuse/unusual enough to require
> self-documenting code, with a temp variable whose name include
> 'closure'.

By "use" I meant not "use it so rarely that it's an exotic hack for me 
that I have to explain what I did here", I mean "write code that relies 
on this as routine language feature". Maybe I'm moving too fast though 
and closure use is not that widespread in PHP, maybe it never will even.

> 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?

No, I don't do that often - but as soon as I started playing with it, I 
felt the need for this syntax, that's why I did it. I think it's 
usefulness depends a lot on how much you use them, so maybe I have to 
wait and see if it will be mainstream enough.
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Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect
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