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[nycphp-talk] mystery parameter for process method in PEAR, HTML_QuickForm

Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg adam at trachtenberg.com
Wed Jun 16 01:28:54 EDT 2004


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Jayesh Sheth wrote:

> I guess PHP has the unusual concept of "user defined" or "variable"
> functions (I remember seeing something similar in the lib/main.php file
> of WikkiTikkiTavi) ... and it is passing the array of submitted data as
> a parameter to whatever the user-defined call-back function is.

This is an old school programming convention. In LISP people often
define functions on the fly and invoke them.

-adam

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