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

[Jonathan Cast]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:45 +0200, Karoly Negyesi 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.

I program in Perl for a living, so hopefully you'll understand when I
say

(a) I would *never* want to use an implementation of closures like that.
(b) Closures as proposed are *far* better than not having closures.

jcc