Closures are coming to PHP

March 22nd, 2009

Dagfinn has a post looking at using the new closure feature of PHP 5.3. He compares using foreach for iteration versus array_map. “Interesting,” he concludes, “but not necessarily better than conventional alternatives.”
I agree for that case. Consider instead, a more complicated operation that requires a setup and a tear down after.
 
setup();
operation();
teardown();
 
Now what happens [...]

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OOP is Mature, not Dead

January 7th, 2007

I ran across an interesting series of blog posts by Karsten Wagner claiming that OOP is dead (part 2 and part 3). The premise behind these posts is that OOP has failed to deliver and that it is on the decline in favor of more functional or meta programming techniques. Maybe its true [...]

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