Comments on: Closures are coming to PHP

By: freetutorial

freetutorial — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:12:33 +0000

Hi Very nice article.

Please post more like this

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Closures are coming to PHP — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:20:47 +0000

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By: Robert K

Robert K — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:11:30 +0000

Well it seemed to me at the time that from PHP 4 and onwards PHP was going to be solely focussed on OO programming – all well and good I suppose but not everyone seems to take to it like a duck to water.

I for one like to use procedural programming as I know what all my functions are doing and for what they are doing it for but as Les (#7) says we should be striving towards cleaner shorter and multi-functional code.

Possibly the good news is that (hopefully) there will always be the option to code in either one or the other.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:37:23 +0000

Edwin, You’re right, I did not use a closure in my example. I’ve edited the post appropriately

By: nick

nick — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:11:08 +0000

@Les: I disagree that we’ve managed well enough, especially with respec to lambda functions, every time I want to use a function like array_map() or usort() and I am forced to either a) introduce a new function into the global scope, or b) use create_function().

And when you introduce lambda functions into a language, then you might as well introduce closures as well because the additional cost is negligible.

Moving towards object orientation principles also doesn’t mean one cannot avail oneself of powerful basic principles. I expect to see useful fruits of adding closures over objects.

By: Les

Les — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:58:12 +0000

@Nick

I gather it’s procedural programmers who would benefit the most – but shouldn’t we all be striving to move towards OO anyways?

We’ve managed well enough without them so far but as I said earlier, why do we need to jump on the bandwagon every time.

By: Jeff Moore’s Blog: Closures (& Lambda Functions) are coming to PHP : Dragonfly Networks

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:51:45 +0000

[...] Moore has a new post showing an example of a feature that will be included in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release – [...]