On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 15:20 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
> On Sun, March 18, 2007 6:41 pm, Wez Furlong wrote:
> > We've been daydreaming about the ability to do something like this in
> > PHP:
> >
> > $data = array("zoo", "orange", "car", "lemon", "apple");
> > usort($data, function($a, $b) { return strcmp($a, $b); });
> > var_dump($data); # data is sorted alphabetically
>
> I'd LOVE it if there was SOME difference between this and a normal
> 'function' definition...
>
> I guess we're kind of stuck with 'create_function' being the mess that
> it is.
>
> But perhaps something like 'temp_function' or 'local_function' or
> 'lexical_closure' or something similar. Even 'horse' [*] would be
> fine by me.
>
> I think it muddies things too much to have it just be 'function' with
> no name after it.
>
> +1
A function with a name is no longer anonymous ;)
Cheers,
Rob.
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