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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][VOTE] Closure from callable
From: inefedor@gmail.com ("Nikita Nefedov")

On Mon, 16 May 2016 03:56:38 +0300, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:

> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Nikita Nefedov <inefedor@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> why would you need to support a $this->fieldName case though?
>>
> Because to not support it would be to deliberately design in a new
> flavor of inconsistency into the language. $obj->memb is a property
> access in PHP.  Making it suddenly mean "method" is a significant
> change (and one which belongs in a major version if at all).
>
> -Sara

The whole idea is not in the syntax here, but in the notion
that this access can only be static (so there'd be no way to
do `$cb = [$this, "methodName"]; callable($cb)` - you'd have
to call `Closure::fromCallable($cb)` instead).

If you don't like the fact that `$obj->methodName` looks like
a field access then there are ways around this.
Because we still need a static way of exporting function
references (whether it'd be as a closure or array). Other
proposals were using `$obj->method::FUNCTION` syntax or something
similar for example...