Hi Alexandru, I don't think there is intention to do that. In particular with pass by reference. Importing variables by-ref likely will be explicit, given recent discussions on the matter. The new Closures or the old ones might automatically "copy" all variables (by-value) at some point, but I doubt they will ever "inherit" variables automatically (by-reference). Hence the proposed syntax or some other one will be needed for that. e.g.:
``` $foo = 123; $fn1 = fn() => { echo $foo; // auto import by value }; $fn2 = fn() => { use &$foo; // import by ref echo $foo; }; $foo = 456; $fn1(); // 123 $fn2(); // 456 ```