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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:51:19 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Short syntax for anonymous functions
From: mduarte@inviqa.com (Marcello Duarte)

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Thanks for the feedback. I get most people here don't appreciate the =
value of the feature.

I can understand that If you haven't tried to write a tool like =
capistrano, rspec, chef, puppet, etc, etc in PHP you probably won't see =
much value in implementing such things.

On 19 Feb 2013, at 13:19, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Marcello Duarte wrote:
>=20
>> Inspired by Sara, here is another RFC, I finally got around to draft:
>>=20
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/short-syntax-for-anonymous-function
>=20
> I'd be really reluctant to add this -- it's yet another (superfluous)=20=

> syntactical sugar, there is no patch, and how does this work with =
bound=20
> variables (use keyword)?

I added an example with the use keyword.

What is superfluous for is useful for other users. It would be useful =
building DSL. At my company we use loads of ruby tools for deploying, =
provisioning, etc. just because of the DSL they provide. The array short =
syntax was great news. Adding a short syntax for closures would make it =
possible to write such scripts in PHP =96 where the syntax would not =
stand on its way.

On 19 Feb 2013, at 13:28, Patrick ALLAERT wrote:
>> BC break detected:
>>=20
>> <?php
>> {
>>    echo "foo\n";
>>    return "bar";
>> };
>>=20
>> echo "baz\n";
>> return 42;
>> ?>


I am actually more concerned with Patrick's feedback regarding BC. I =
can't think of a solution for this right now.

> cheers,
> Derick
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