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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 12:49:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] $arr = array('Hello', 'world'); $arr();
From: marcel.esser@croscon.com (Marcel Esser)

On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 12:42 -0400, Pierre Joye wrote:
> +1, very good job!
> 
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Reading our bug tracker I noticed a good feature request [1] from 2009 which
> > points to an interesting feature that I think makes sense for us, since we
> > are now working with $f() using objects and strings, and the array('class',
> > 'method') is an old known for call_user_func()-like functions.
> >
> > So, I wrote a patch [2] that allow such behavior to be consistent with
> > arrays. See some examples:
> >
> > class Hello {
> >   public function world($x) {
> >      echo "Hello, $x\n"; return $this;
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > $f = array('Hello','world');
> > var_dump($f('you'));
> >
> > $f = array(new Hello, 'foo');
> > $f();
> >
> > All such calls match with the call_user_func() behavior related to magic
> > methods, static & non-static methods.
> >
> > The array to be a valid callback should be a 2-element array, and it must be
> > for the first element object/string and for the second string only. (just
> > like our zend_is_callable() check and opcodes related to init call)
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > [1] - http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47160
> > [2] - http://felipe.ath.cx/diff/fr47160.diff
> > phpt: http://felipe.ath.cx/diff/fr47160.phpt
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Felipe Pena
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pierre
> 
> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
> 
This is a very good idea.

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