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To: Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove variable function and method calls
From: joel.perras@gmail.com (Joel Perras)

What's confusing about it? Each expression means something very
different and distinct.

I use $foo(), new $foo(), classname::$foo, classname::$foo(),
$bar::$foo, $bar::$foo(), etc. on a regular basis, and it can make for
some very elegant, concise and readable code.

Moreover, this really isn't something you can just remove from the
language. There's already a fair bit of code (including my own) out in
the wild that makes use of this syntax.

-j.

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:
> 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 ca=
n be abused, doesn't mean it should be removed, unless it's impeding furthe=
r innovation (a la namespaced old style constructors).
>
> It's not abusing it's the horribly confusing syntax.
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