Req #60024 [Dup]: Do not keep last element treated by foreach referenced

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60024&edit=1 ID: 60024 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: chealer at gmail dot com Summary: Do not keep last element treated by foreach referenced Status: Duplicate Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Scripting Engine problem PHP Version: 5.3.8 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Sure, it's come up on the mailing list a few times, but the one I was thinking of specifically is: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.devel/59471 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-06 22:24:17] chealer at gmail dot com Could the discussion be linked to? This is not a duplicate of any of the reports indicated. The reports indicated are reports of application bugs as PHP bugs, which are therefore invalid. This report is asking to change PHP, in order to avoid such application bugs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-06 00:53:13] aharvey@php.net This has previously been discussed and rejected, due to users relying both on PHP's lack of block scope and foreach's by-reference syntax. (Sometimes both at once, unfortunately.) Duplicate of bug #29992, bug #47388, bug #54189, bug #50485, and probably a bunch of others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-02-06 00:47:50] DeveloperGuy2008 at yahoo dot com Please fix this. It creates a lot of hard to debug bugs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-10-09 21:09:19] chealer at gmail dot com Description: ------------ As explained on http://ca.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php : Warning Reference of a $value and the last array element remain even after the foreach loop. It is recommended to destroy it by unset(). In my opinion, PHP shouldn't keep the last element referenced by default, but at least, please provide a syntax which will not keep it. The current situations causes bugs like https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49386 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60024&edit=1