Posted by Edward Z. Yang on 06/07/07 02:04

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Jon Slaughter wrote:
> is there any way to simply add an attribute like feature to a
> function/method definition? [snip]

You want the "Strategy" pattern, making the function into an object:

class TestFunction
{
var $probability = 0.234321;
function call() { /* ... */ }
}

$func = new TestFunction();
$func->call();

PHP does not treat anonymous functions as first-class objects, unlike
JavaScript, so some acrobatics are necessary to get this working.

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