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Reading over the manual, they don't list anything that only it can do. I would guess its there to provide a slightly more "formal" way of doing variable functions ie
The call_user_func method raises a visible flag that we're calling a different function based on our input that some poeple consider more readable. So its mainly a style issue. It also coul be useful for creating a closure system, but I doubt that's why its there.