PHP written in a JavaScript style is already possible with PHP 5.3. I
started a little
thread about this on a forum but didn't get that much feedback:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=565576
It's not really what we're used to in JavaScript but it's very close.
On 12/25/2008 07:11, Lars Strojny wrote:
Hi David,
Am Dienstag, den 23.12.2008, 17:02 +0100 schrieb David Zülke:
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This gives a fatal "Call to undefined method DateTime::getAtom()"
$d = new DateTime();
$d->getAtom = Curry::create(array($d, 'format'), DATE_ATOM);
echo $d->getAtom();
This is the same as the following:
$obj = new stdClass();
$obj->method = function() {
return "foo";
};
$obj->method();
The first "method" is a property, the call to "method" is - well - a
method call. Because PHP separates methods and properties in the class
entry structure - and because we have magic methods like __set, __get
and __call, there is no efficient and logical way how to search for
properties with closure instances when a method is not found. We
discussed that before and decided to let closures go out into the wild
and think about adding a solution for prototype alike inheritance later.
cu, Lars
