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

[Lanny Ripple]

But all the cool kids have em!

Seriously though computer languages are about getting things done.
If this gets more things done for the PHP community in ways
easier/simpler/faster than before then it's a win.

They are after all /their/ deckchairs to play with.

  -ljr

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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