Use of Closures in Views

Question though, are you sure this is a closure? I think its actually an anonymous function.

I could be wrong though, thats why im asking, you seem a lot more experienced than I am with PHP.

From what I understand, closures will encapsulate all the variables in the environment around them, while anonymous functions need to be passed variables to have access to them.

I honestly always thought they were the same thing with Closure being the specific class name, while anonymous function was just a "layman's term". A little research shows there is a difference in other languages like Javascript but, in PHP they are the same thing. Whenever you create an anonymous function it creates an instance of the class Closure.

Source: PHP Manual on Closures

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