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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Short Closures
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Lester Caine wrote on 24/09/2015 08:06:
> So is PHP heading
> down the path of a compiled language even if that is hidden in some
> automatic cache or is it still mainly an interpreted script?

PHP already is a compiled language; it just has a highly dynamic runtime 
engine (which is at times a blessing, and at times a curse).