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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Closures as methods (and Closure::bind)
From: glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt ("Gustavo Lopes")

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:57:47 +0100, Johannes Schl=FCter  =

<johannes@schlueters.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 14:38 +0100, Gustavo Lopes wrote:
>> I've updated the wiki page for "Closures with objects extension" with=

>> things that are in "Proposal A with modification"s but are not  =

>> implemented:
>>
>> http://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures/object-extension#status_as_of_august=
_10_2010
>>
>> I propose an implementation of "closures stored in properties used as=

>> methods", as in:
>>
>> $this->prop =3D function () { ...}
>> $this->prop();
>>
> [...]
> I don#t have an opinion on this feature, yet, I like the current
> class-based object model as reading code is relatively simple, with th=
is
> addition (and the fact that you can create properties on the fly) we
> create a powerful tool for really hard to read code.
>

It's important to understand this is not mere syntactic sugar over

$a =3D $this->prop;
$a();

or call_user_func($this->prop). It actually allows executing closures in=
 a  =

way that fails if the staticness or bound instance of the closure is not=
  =

what was expected.

See the beautiful tree graphs on the wiki page.

-- =

Gustavo Lopes