In php, how can I make a library of functions more cohesive?

Question

I find php's Object Orientation somewhat verbose and unsavory. I love working with the cleanliness of functions, and my ideal is to code in php from as close to Clojure's excellent approach to Functional Programming as can be done & still make sense in php.

As I move towards F.P., I've found that it's hard to keep a group of related functions cohesive. In OO, that would be done with shared state and methods that exist as part of the same class. Is there some aspect of F.P. that can be used to help with that?

Answer 1

maybe namespaces in php 5.3 ?

Answer 2

Turning a group of PHP functions into a simple static class is not really that verbose.

class MyClass{

  //all your other existing functions here
  function existing_function(){
   //do something
  }

}

MyClass::existing_function();

I mean, from here, you can do all types of nifty things like make the methods private or protected... but you seem to be against the advantages of OOP, so I'll save that for a different discussion.