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

Here's another alternative based on the accepted answer but extending stdClass directly:

class stdClassExt extends stdClass {
    public function __call($method, $args)
    {
        if (isset($this->$method)) {
            $func = $this->$method;
            return call_user_func_array($func, $args);
        }
    }
}

Usage example:

$foo = new stdClassExt;
$foo->blub = 42;
$foo->whooho = function () { return 1; };
echo $foo->whooho();

You are probably better off using call_user_func or __invoke though.