PHP Wiki - rfc:closures

PHP Wiki - rfc:closures https://wiki.php.net/ 2026-05-01T21:26:48+00:00 PHP Wiki https://wiki.php.net/ https://wiki.php.net/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-04-03T13:08:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) object-extension https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures/object-extension?rev=1743685723&do=diff <table><tr><th colspan="2" width="50%">2011/04/06 10:59</th><th colspan="2" width="50%">current</th></tr><tr><td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">Line 1:</td> <td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">Line 1:</td> </tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">====== Closures: Object extension ======</td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">====== Closures: Object extension ======</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class="diff-lineheader">+</td><td class="diff-addedline">  * Date: 2009-01-22</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class="diff-lineheader">+</td><td class="diff-addedline">  * Author: Unknown</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class="diff-lineheader">+</td><td class="diff-addedline">  * Status: Implemented in PHP 5.4</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class="diff-lineheader">+</td><td class="diff-addedline"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class="diff-lineheader">+</td><td class="diff-addedline">===== Introduction =====</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">Efforts were made to go beyond the scope of the original Closures proposal ([[rfc/closures]]) in order to allow the extension of objects dynamically, take the following example code:</td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">Efforts were made to go beyond the scope of the original Closures proposal ([[rfc/closures]]) in order to allow the extension of objects dynamically, take the following example code:</td></tr> </table> text/html 2025-04-03T13:08:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) removal-of-this https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closures/removal-of-this?rev=1743685723&do=diff <table><tr><th colspan="2" width="50%">2009/01/26 22:25</th><th colspan="2" width="50%">current</th></tr><tr><td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">Line 1:</td> <td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">Line 1:</td> </tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">====== Removal of $this in closures ======</td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">====== Removal of $this in closures ======</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader">-</td><td class="diff-deletedline"></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader">-</td><td class="diff-deletedline">(NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT COMMITTED YET. THIS PAGE IS STILL WORK IN PROGRESS)</td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">This document describes the changes that were done in order to remove $this support from closures for PHP 5.3 beta1. This has become necessary in order to make sure that when a consensus is found on how to add $this to closures, it will be able to integrate that without BC issues.</td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">This document describes the changes that were done in order to remove $this support from closures for PHP 5.3 beta1. This has become necessary in order to make sure that when a consensus is found on how to add $this to closures, it will be able to integrate that without BC issues.</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">Line 65:</td> <td class="diff-blockheader" colspan="2">Line 63:</td> </tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">Thus, a ''new ReflectionFunction($closure)'' has access to the real user-defined closure details and ''new ReflectionMethod($closure, "_invoke")'' has access to the internal auto-generated handler method.</td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">Thus, a ''new ReflectionFunction($closure)'' has access to the real user-defined closure details and ''new ReflectionMethod($closure, "_invoke")'' has access to the internal auto-generated handler method.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class="diff-lineheader">+</td><td class="diff-addedline"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class="diff-lineheader">+</td><td class="diff-addedline">''new ReflectionMethod ($closure)'' will not work anymore. This is for consistency reasons, since if both ReflectionMethod and ReflectionFunction constructors accepted the closure directly, it would not be clear what ''new ReflectionParameter ($closure, 1)'' would do (now it is clear: use ReflectionFunction as the constructor).</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">==== isClosure ====</td><td class="diff-lineheader"> </td><td class="diff-context">==== isClosure ====</td></tr> </table>