On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 12:24, Nuno Maduro <enunomad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Concerning the comments about what's exactly "auto-captured" by the scope > of a multi-line short closure, we will be just reusing the "auto-capture" > feature that already exists in one-line short closures. Therefore, this RFC > doesn't have plans on changing the way "auto-capture" already works in PHP. > Absolutely, but allowing assignments in short closures increases their complexity, and thus (in my opinion) erases the advantage of auto-capturing. I know you can _also_ have assignments in short closures (because assignments are just expressions in PHP), but it's much harder to come up with short closure gotchas.