Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Auto-capture multi-line closures and shortfunctions take 2

[Peter Stalman]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 2:26 PM Mark Randall <marand...@php.net> wrote:

> To give my own example, earlier this week I wrote the following:
>
> $x = function () use ($to, $library, $thread, $author, $title,
> $library_name, $top_post) { ... }
>
> That was just to get those variables inside a callback that could be
> invoked inside a throw-aware buffering helper.
>

Hi Mark,

Have you considered using an array or DTO to pass the data?

You could also do this (although I'm not advocating it):

```
$vars = get_defined_vars();
$x = function() use ($vars) {
    extract($vars);
    /* ... */
};
```

Thanks,
Peter