Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:63169 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 6856 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2012 18:21:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Sep 2012 18:21:55 -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] ([50.22.11.19:34230] helo=bedford.accountservergroup.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B7/F1-15057-24D0A505 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:21:55 -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 1TEOuG-0008y2-FQ for internals@lists.php.net; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:21:52 -0500 Message-ID: <505A0D3F.3040604@mrclay.org> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:21:51 -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> <505A074C.70501@mrclay.org> <505A085E.1050808@ajf.me> In-Reply-To: <505A085E.1050808@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 2:01 PM, Andrew Faulds wrote: >> Some other ideas: >> >> $cb = (callable) $obj->bar; > Ah, but (callable) that won't work for global functions, since (callable) is a cast, and (callable) is not usable as a cast (at least in 5.4.7): $a = (callable)'str'; // Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'callable' (T_CALLABLE) This could work, and it makes sense to me at least. > $cb = {mysql_real_escape_string}; > $cb = &{mysql_real_escape_string}; I'll add these possibilities to the RFC soon. Steve -- http://www.mrclay.org/