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Closure can be converted to arrow function

Reports the anonymous functions and property hooks that can be transformed to short arrow functions. Support for short arrow functions is available since PHP 7.4.

See PHP RFC: Arrow Functions 2.0 (php.net) for details.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PhpClosureCanBeConvertedToShortArrowFunctionInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | PHP | Code style

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PhpClosureCanBeConvertedToShortArrowFunctionInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025