On Apr 12, 2012, at 12:21, Nikita Popov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Laruence <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Dmitri Snytkine
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm curious to know the benefits of this.
>>> Care to explain why or when this would be useful?
>
> It would be nice to see a few real-life scenarios where this is
> useful. Right now I can't think of situations where you'd want to
> change the variable name between the outer scope and the closure
> scope. Wouldn't that just be confusion for the programmer if the same
> variable would go under two different names?
How about something like this:
function f() {
…
$longButDescriptiveVariableUsedForSeveralThings = …;
...
usort($arr, function($a, $b)
uses($longButDescriptiveVariableUsedForSeveralThings as $sortKey){
return $b->$sortKey - $a->$sortKey;
});
}
Function parameters are named such that they're relevant to the function, not
the caller. Closure variables should be seen as a (special case of) function
parameter in that respect.
-John
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