On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 17:39, Hans Henrik Bergan <divinit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > something i'm missing from Javascript is the ability to give names to > closures, ...the name is optional, and only visible inside the closure > itself, and unfortunately this is not legal in PHP, i wish it was.
I really like that...but unfortunately that wouldn't work in PHP. In JS, when a function is declared inside another function, the name of it is limited to the scope of the containing function. In PHP, when a function is declared inside another function, it is put into the current namespace's global scope. Changing how scope works in PHP would be too large a change for just this. Levi Morrison wrote: > Is there any way we can spell it `__FUNCTION__`? I think using some sort of constant, rather than a magic variable sounds is probably the way to go. I would hope we could find something better than that as: return __FUNCTION__($n-1) + __FUNCTION__($n-2); is pretty hard on my eyes. I think I'll wander over to the 'Support for <func>::function syntax' thread... cheers Dan Ack # PHP function foo1() { function bar() {} } function foo2() { function bar() {} } foo1(); foo2(); // Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bar() # JS function foo1() { var fn = function TheClosuresLocalName(){ console.log("I am closure inside foo1"); } return fn; } function foo2() { var fn = function TheClosuresLocalName(){ console.log("I am closure inside foo2"); } return fn; } fn1 = foo1(); fn2 = foo2(); fn1(); fn2(); "I am closure inside foo1" "I am closure inside foo2" -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php