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Request #51083 Closures returned by functions/methods must be stored to be executed...
Submitted: 2010-02-18 15:02 UTC Modified: 2014-10-12 14:48 UTC
Votes:4
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.7
Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:2 (66.7%)
From: adam dot jorgensen dot za at gmail dot com Assigned: nikic (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.3.1 OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2010-02-18 15:02 UTC] adam dot jorgensen dot za at gmail dot com
Description:
------------
When returning an anonymous function from a method or function call, the returned closure is not directly executable in a logical fashion. The closure needs to be stored in order to be executed or must be called via the call_user_func family of functions.

This is fairly illogical and inconsistent with the idea of closures.

Reproduce code:
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function test($a)
{
 return function($b) use($a) { echo $a . ':' . $b . '<br/>'; };
}

call_user_func(test(1), 2);
$x = test(1);
$x(2);
test(1)(2);

Expected result:
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Output should be:
1:2
1:2
1:2


Actual result:
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Execution fails. Error:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '('

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 [2010-03-06 12:17 UTC] kalle@php.net
Function call chaining is not supported in any versions of php, its was however 
decided at the May 2009 PDM to implement it together with array dereferencing in 
PHP6.
 [2010-11-24 10:09 UTC] jani@php.net
-Package: Feature/Change Request +Package: Scripting Engine problem
 [2014-10-12 14:48 UTC] nikic@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: nikic
 [2014-10-12 14:48 UTC] nikic@php.net
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