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PHP is getting closures!

Posted by dave | No Comments

I’ve seen very little from PHP that got me excited lately.  So, imagine how excited I am to hear that closures are coming to PHP 5.3!
If you’ve done a lot with today’s popular Javascript libraries like jQuery and Prototype, you’ve no doubt come across closures.  They’re little self-contained functions that can be passed around like [...]