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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove variable function and method calls
From: karoly@negyesi.net (Karoly Negyesi)

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Davey Shafik <davey@php.net> wrote:
> You can call classname::$foo() and even $obj->$foo() with call_user_func(=
), should we get rid of those too?

Absolutely not.

> I grant you that variable function calls are sometimes confusing, lambda =
functions are a better way to do it perhaps, but just because something can=
 be abused, doesn't mean it should be removed, unless it's impeding further=
 innovation (a la namespaced old style constructors).

It's not abusing it's the horribly confusing syntax.