In response to this previous post from Felix Geisendorfer, Sara Golemon shares a few thoughts on why she thinks it's just the other way around - create_function is not your friend.

In the short post she lists just a few of the issues surrounding the use of the function including that it:

• is prone to critical abuse by user-supplied code
• skips opcode cache optimizations
• encourages not using comments (evil)
• 100% blind to reflection or PHPDoc style documentation generation

Greg Beaver has a new post today on his blog concerning the interesting crossing paths of the phpDocumentor project and PEAR.

He notes that this improvement not only makes installing the phpDocumentor package more flexible, but it also makes it a snap to get up and running. Those used to the PEAR package system will be happy to know it's a simple "pear " command away. It makes full use of the package.xml 2.0 features to really make the install nice and clean.