2008/6/17 Achim Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > PR Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Blimey! Talk about rearranging the deckchairs :-) >> With respect, do you not think it'd be wiser for the community to >> deal with a total lack of proper type checking, the lack of any >> notion of the general concept of a function, or a whole range of >> other fundamental issues in PHP first before worrying about closures >> and lambda functions? I'm no language purist but PHP really does >> take the biscuit. >> My personal views and not in any way representing the list . >> > Oh yes they are. I'd rather smash my head repeatedly into a wall than > suffering the agony of using a hacked cat.
Well, it's not like they're going to turn python into Haskell :-) If any flaw in a language is fundamental, fixing it is likely to cause compatibility... issues. And about closures done wrong, I think the biggest mistake (the only I spotted, actually) is the keyword "lexical". It seems to add unnecessary verbosity where plain lexical scope would suffice. It would be OK if lexical scope is impossible (which I doubt), and plain wrong if done for readability reasons. Is there any discussion about this point? Concerning OOP, I didn't really pay attention. My 2 cents. Take with a grain of salt, for I don't really know PHP Loup _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
