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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Inconsistencies in callable, call_user_func and direct
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From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Dennis Birkholz <dennis@birkholz.biz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 19.03.2015 um 17:27 schrieb Sebastian B.-Hagensen:
>> Another way to unify array and string callback may be to use the
>> callable syntax and have it return a closure:
>> callable('strlen');
>> callable($object, $methodName);
>> callable('class', 'staticMethod')
>
> but before that happens, we should make closures serializable.

What does closures being serializable have to do with this feature?