Posted by Andy Hassall on 04/16/07 19:33

On 15 Apr 2007 22:14:12 -0700, "lawrence k" <lkrubner@geocities.com> wrote:

>Just noticed this for the first time:
>
>http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.create-function.php
>
>Anyone know if PHP supports enclosures, like Javascript or Ruby? I've
>always assumed PHP lacked these. If I create a function with object
>instances, will the instances retain their state if the function
>definition is stored in a variable?

No, PHP doesn't support closures; create_function is basically just a
restricted eval(). The function definition is a string, and isn't connected to
the scope from which create_function is called.
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