Hi, After some discussion with Dmitry, he and I have continued to improve the current closure patch. You can find the current proposal with patches for 5_3 and HEAD here:
http://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures (Please read it again, I've changed quite a lot.) Basically, it's the syntax with use ($lexical) in the function declaration, optional references, optional static keyword for functions that don't need $this and support for __invoke. I know that there was some disagreement on the syntax (including by me) but I think this is the best compromise we can achieve while still staying consistent with PHPs current semantics and not breaking BC at all. I've spoken to Dmitry and he said the patch will be committed to HEAD soon. Since both Dmitry and I still want to have it in 5_3 too, we'd want to ask for opinions on this again - especially since after quite a lot of thorough review and discussion on this list basically all the side-effects have been addressed and there are now quite a few tests that ensure the correct behaviour of closures. Also, the patch is now built in a way that the main functionality remains inside zend_closures.c, so any possible not yet encountered bug can be fixed without breaking binary compability. Regards, Christian -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
