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The Closure class

Class used to represent anonymous functions.

Intro

Class used to represent anonymous functions.

Anonymous functions yield objects of this type. This class has methods that allow further control of the anonymous function after it has been created.

Besides the methods listed here, this class also has an __invoke method. This is for consistency with other classes that implement calling magic, as this method is not used for calling the function.

Class synopsis

final Closure { }

Changelog

VersionDescription
8.4.0The output of Closure::__debugInfo now includes the name, line, and file of the closure.

Notes

Note

Closure objects cannot be serialized as closures may contain bound variables and a specific execution context. Attempting to serialize a closure will throw an Exception.

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In this section

Source: language/predefined/closure.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)