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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:38:54 +0100
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To: Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] T_AS in closures
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was clicking on bugs.php.net/random today and I came across #54888,
> which is a feature request for the following syntax:
>
>     $foo = 'whatever';
>     $bar = function() use ($foo as $baz) { /* use $baz here */ };
>
> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54888
>
> I don't know if other languages have it, but it seems nice and
> considering how much developers prefer foreach() over other loops
> because it allows them to "rename" the variable, I'm sure people would
> love it.
>
> Has this been discussed before? What are your opinions on it?
>
> Regards,
> Andrey Andreev.
>

There has been an RFC for this: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/useas

IIRC the RFC was withdrawn because the reception was not very positive. You
might want to have a look at the discussion, see
http://markmail.org/message/q53myujswaesca2u and
http://markmail.org/message/nrptrylgkarqrpxk.

Nikita

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