Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:63165 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 99855 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2012 17:56:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Sep 2012 17:56:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=steve@mrclay.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=steve@mrclay.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain mrclay.org from 50.22.11.19 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: steve@mrclay.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 50.22.11.19 bedford.accountservergroup.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [50.22.11.19] ([50.22.11.19:58917] helo=bedford.accountservergroup.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9B/70-15057-1570A505 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:56:34 -0400 Received: from n128-227-215-246.xlate.ufl.edu ([128.227.215.246] helo=Distance-Ed-Sclay.local) by bedford.accountservergroup.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TEOVi-000213-I2 for internals@lists.php.net; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:56:30 -0500 Message-ID: <505A074C.70501@mrclay.org> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:56:28 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP Internals References: <50593266.5010802@mrclay.org> <5059FE96.7080406@ajf.me> In-Reply-To: <5059FE96.7080406@ajf.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bedford.accountservergroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - mrclay.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: alternative callback syntax From: steve@mrclay.org (Steve Clay) On 9/19/12 1:19 PM, Andrew Faulds wrote: > I completely agree. How about &function_name? Resembles C (function pointers!), and unless > I'm getting confused, it isn't currently legal syntax for something else. $cb = & Foo::doSomething; $cb = & foo_doSomething; $cb = & $obj->doSomething; The last looks like a reference to a property, though having verb method names would help distinguish. Not sure if the ambiguity would make this difficult to implement. Some other ideas: $cb = (callable) $obj->bar; $cb = callable $obj->bar; $cb = callable::$obj->bar; $cb = $obj->bar::callable; Steve -- http://www.mrclay.org/