Posted by gosha bine on 04/17/07 11:29

On 16.04.2007 18:47 lawrence k wrote:
>
> You misunderstood the question. I was asking "Does PHP support
> closures?" That was the question. I like using closures in languages
> such as Ruby and Javascript. I was wondering if there was any way to
> do so in PHP. I'm assuming the answer is no.
>
>

hi there

php doesn't support closures directly, because function declarations are
processed at compile time and create_function() deals only with strings.

However, with some hacking it's possible to emulate closures (or,
rather, partial application) using eval or create_function. See e.g.
http://www.tagarga.com/blok/on/061218


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gosha bine

extended php parser ~ http://code.google.com/p/pihipi
blok ~ http://www.tagarga.com/blok

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