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Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 10:34:59 +0200
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To: Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Closure from callable
From: ocramius@gmail.com (Marco Pivetta)

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On 16 May 2016 at 10:31, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:

> I'm sorry, I didn't follow the RFC discussion.
> In general I like the idea, but why not to use Closure constructor?
>
> $f = new Closure("some_func");
>
> would look more readable than
>
> $f = Closure::fromCallable("some_func");
>
> Sorry, if this was already discussed before.
>
> Thanks. Dmitry.
>

Constructors can't be used as callbacks, so you wouldn't be able to map
this operation without yet another level of indirection.

A named constructor also leaves more space for later improvements, and is
quite a bit more expressive.

Marco Pivetta

http://twitter.com/Ocramius

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