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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Arrow function expressions in PHP
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Levi Morrison wrote on 01/10/2015 19:09:
> You are capped to saving about 5-7 characters no matter what you do
> with this functionality.

I see an upper limit to savings of 21 - using "|" to stand in for "some 
single character delimiting the sections" gives:

|$x|$y|$x*$y| // 13 chars

vs

function($x)use($y){return $x*$y;} // 34 chars