Why can I not use $this as a lexical variable in PHP 5.5.4?

Question

$ php --version
PHP 5.5.4 (cli) (built: Sep 19 2013 17:10:06) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Zend Technologies
         


        

Answer 1

You can use this:

class Foo
{
  public function bar()
  {
    $obj = $this;
    return function() use ($obj)
    {
        //$obj->DoStuff();
        echo "in closure\n";
    };
  }
 }