On Monday 14 January 2008, Richard Lynch wrote: > And, actually, the implementation that seemed to get the most > approbation was a simple way to create a function as a kind of a > resource (like a MySQL connection resource) and then you could pass it > around and use it. > > It still didn't have a full-blown closure behaviour, as I recall, of > keeping the entire environment at the time of the function defintion. The better version, I thought, had the lexical keyword so you could keep around those variables you actually want. Not sure what the status of it is. > If you want something that esoteric, go use Lisp. :-) You are aware that of the "modern" web languages (PHP, Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.) PHP is the only one that doesn't have at least partial closures and dynamic functions, right? -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
