Accessing template functions without $this about plates HOT 4 CLOSED

Totally agree on that. Mainly because global functions conflicts happen way to often, e.g. it is impossible to use klein\klein with anything that requires illuminate\support.

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@SxDx Thanks for taking the time to read. I wanted to get this stuff written down, because I'm sure it will come up in the future and I'll want to know why I decided against it. ;)

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Closures wouldn't suffer from the scope issues that variables suffer from, as all functions are known before the rendering begins. They can also be dynamically generated, and therefore don't suffer from the autoloading issues. Honestly, if variable access was possible this way (which is isn't , see above), I'd seriously consider this.

This is actually a very bad idea, as all function names (core and extensions) could then conflict with template variables, which would be very annoying. For example: $data, $layout, $content, $child, $start, $end, $e, $escape, $asset, $batch.

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Isn't possible to define this functions inside the Template class namespace ?

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