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This PR is now in a pretty complete state (with the limitations listed above), let's wait and see how the vote on the PHP RFC goes, and then feature-test for parity once the RFC's implementation has stabilized. |
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This pull request implements limited support for partial function applications (PFA) for PHP 7.4 - 8.4:
In a nutshell
PFA builds on top of callable closure syntax (e.g.
$f= strlen(...)
) by adding a new placeholder representing a single argument, the question mark (?
):Implementation
str_replace('test', 'ok', ?)
tofn($arg) => str_replace('test', 'ok', $arg)
new
expressions (unlike PHP, which does not support this!)"test" |> strlen(?)
asstrlen("test")
)Limitations
Support by-ref arguments- this would require runtime reflection checks, resulting in a significant performance hitInvoking with named parameters- same as above, would require runtime reflectionParameter and return type anntotations- same as above, would require runtime reflectionVariadic placeholder in the middle of arguments(e.g.$c = stuff(1, ?, ..., p: ?, f: 3.14);
)See also