Closures, lambdas and namespaces in PHP 5.3

ttp://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-08-01-1

I have a dream that one day PHP will be a respectable programming language.

I have a dream that one day we'll download popular web applications that are free software and will not be outraged at their source code.

I have a dream that one day "designers" who were writing PHP would just give up and we'll get less PHP-Nuke hacks, and more decent software.

I have a dream today.

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Wikipedia:

As of 2007, work has begun in anticipation of another revision of the C standard, informally called "C1x". The C standards committee has adopted guidelines to limit the adoption of new features that have not been tested by existing implementations.

If you want closures and lambdas in standard C, feel free to add them to gcc (|Intel CC|Microsoft CC if you happen to work on either team). That's the only way the ISO will even glance at a feature request.