Re: Re: An implementation of a short syntax for closures

From: Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:02:40 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: An implementation of a short syntax for closures
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Haha, yes indeed. In fact my Thunderbird was changing them to sad smileys until I disabled emoticons!

Colon is one of many possibilities.

Your argument goes back to whether or not PHP should have short-hand lambdas in general. It's looking like the majority of people think it shouldn't.



On 04/08/2011 21:53, Johannes Schlüter wrote:

On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 21:17 +0100, Jezz Goodwin wrote:

:($x)=>$x+1;

":(" looks quite sad. I also assume you know that : is a division. In a
more complex situation this might, on first sight, be mistaken as a
division by $x or such.

Mind that a line of code typically is read way more often than written.
Readability matters. PHP in many areas makes a good thing by having
keywords here and there.

johannes

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