Posted by Jon Slaughter on 06/07/07 02:32

"Edward Z. Yang" <edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com> wrote in message
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> Jon Slaughter wrote:
>> is there any way to simply add an attribute like feature to a
>> function/method definition? [snip]
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> You want the "Strategy" pattern, making the function into an object:
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> class TestFunction
> {
> var $probability = 0.234321;
> function call() { /* ... */ }
> }
>
> $func = new TestFunction();
> $func->call();
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> PHP does not treat anonymous functions as first-class objects, unlike
> JavaScript, so some acrobatics are necessary to get this working.

This is more work than I'm looking for unless I can someone "wrap" a
function into a functor.

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