[Haskell-cafe] Lambda and closures in PHP -- could someone please comment?

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

Calm down, PR, that's not so bad, all we're going to see is an example  
of closures done wrong, nothing more.

On 17 Jun 2008, at 21:46, PR Stanley wrote:

> Blimey! Talk about rearranging the deckchairs :-)
> With respect, do you not think it'd be wiser for the community to  
> deal with a total lack of proper type checking, the lack of any  
> notion of the general concept of a function, or a whole range of  
> other fundamental issues in PHP first before worrying about closures  
> and lambda functions?  I'm no language purist but PHP really does  
> take the biscuit.
> My personal views and not in any way representing the list .
> Paul
>
> At 17:45 17/06/2008, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The PHP community is discussing the adding of closures and lambdas to
>> the language, see the proposal at http://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures
>>
>> If someone with knowledge of both languages could take a quick look  
>> it
>> would be great.
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> Karoly Negyesi
>>
>> Ps. I am not a member of the PHP internals team, I am just a PHP
>> developer but I am very very interested in getting these in my
>> favourite language.
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