Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:54357 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 85680 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2011 13:04:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Aug 2011 13:04:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:44441] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id EB/21-13433-9E89A3E4 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:04:42 -0400 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88B24DE9B0; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:04:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:04:38 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky To: Victor Bolshov cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4E3A48F2.4000503@lerdorf.com> <4E3A8014.1030503@rotorised.com> <1312457975.1541.7.camel@guybrush> <4E3A9549.6010803@daylessday.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] An implementation of a short syntax for closures From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Victor Bolshov wrote: > Btw, am I the only one to whom the proposed syntax seems kinda hieroglyphic? No. I don't see at all why we need this, just like I don't see why we needed an alternative (short) syntax for arrays. This kind of syntax additions that add *no* functionality, should not be in PHP. Derick