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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:34:01 +0200
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To: Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] $arr = array('Hello', 'world'); $arr();
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 17:52, 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.


I like it.

I also think we should implement "callable" typehint.
A lot of framworks are now adopting Closure as a typehint for that,
which is annoying due to the fact you have to wrap anything else in a
closure just to pass that typehint.

Essentially the callable typehint would be the same as is_callable($arg, true);

That means I can pass in any string with a function name, an array
(with class+methodname), and a closure.

-Hannes