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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:11:08 +0100
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To: Steve Clay <steve@mrclay.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow all callables to be called directly
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Steve Clay <steve@mrclay.org> wrote:

> My subject was misleading. I didn't mean to suggest call_user_func() be
> removed, just be made unnecessary by direct call syntax.
>
> This should make the inconsistency clearer: http://3v4l.org/L8Yvq
>
> On 3/15/13 10:21 AM, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
>
>> You don't need to use it, if you don't like it.
>>
>
> I do need to use in case my $callable is an object callback.
>

I think you missed something. We already support that in 5.4. You can do
$foo = ['class', 'method']; $foo() and $foo = [$obj, 'method']; $foo(). I
don't know why 'class::method' isn't supported, but I guess it's just a
legacy syntax that was superseded by the array notation and as such not
supported.

Nikita

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