On Thu, March 22, 2007 8:09 am, Christian Schneider wrote: >> Plain old google brought up: >> http://groovy.codehaus.org/Martin+Fowler's+closure+examples+in+Groovy >> among other hits (Groovy syntax should be easy enough to follow). > > He said real-life examples (-:C
I said real-life NEED, as in, "I can't do X in a clean/decent way without a closure" Wanting to write obfuscated natural-language-looking code is not a NEED. :-) :-) :-) The only programmers I ever met in 25 years who NEEDED closures were AI Researchers (and I was one). And, yes, there IS a need for them in that kind of work. How many AI researchers have turned to PHP as their language of choice? 0.5, counting the guy who wrote that neural network thingie in PHP as his idea of a Good Time is all I know of... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
