Calling closure assigned to object property directly

Question

I would like to be able to call a closure that I assign to an object\'s property directly without reassigning the closure to a variable and then calling it. Is this possible

Answer 1

Well, if you really insist. Another workaround would be:

$obj = new ArrayObject(array(),2);

$obj->callback = function() {
    print "HelloWorld!";
};

$obj['callback']();

But that's not the nicest syntax.

However, the PHP parser always treats T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, IDENTIFIER, ( as method call. There seems to be no workaround for making -> bypass the method table and access the attributes instead.