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Thats a pretty crappy example to put on the homepage: 13 lines of Ruby compiled into 67 lines of PHP. You could write some PHP more or less identical to the Rub

• ctide 16y ago
  I imagine the example is pretty indicative of how it works. Better to have a crappy example than no example at all.
• fosk 16y ago
  Actually most of the code initializes Fructose, in PHP I can write the same code like (6 lines, 7 including blank line): class Greeter { public static function greet($text) { echo $text; } } Greeter::greet("Hello, World!\n");
  • electrum 16y ago
    That code isn't the same as the original. The instance variable is being initialized via a block -- your function needs to accept a callback.
  • charliesome 16y ago
    This would be the PHP that'd do the same thing: class Greeter { public function __construct($fn) { $this->greeting = $fn(); } public function greet() { echo $this->greeting; } } $greeter = new Greeter(function() { return "Hello, World!"; }); $greeter->greet(); That code will only work in PHP 5.3. If you want anonymous functions in lower versions, you're going to have to use create_function(). If you want closures, you may as well forget about doing it nicely. There's a reason the Fructose generated PHP isn't very pretty. The Fructose generated code will run on any version of PHP that's at least 5.0.