Re: foreach() and list()

I don't know. Personally I think this feature rates with high WTF factor rating. It may save some keystrokes, but it's not very intuitive IMHO. At 13:32 16/12/2000, Cynic wrote:

what about preserving the way PHP behaves when feeded non-array to list()? $x = 'xy' ; list( $a , $b ) = $x ; echo '$a:' ; var_dump( $a ) ; echo '$b:' ; var_dump( $b ) ; $a:string(1) "x" $b:string(1) "y" $x = 12 ; list( $a , $b ) = $x ; echo '$a:' ; var_dump( $a ) ; echo '$b:' ; var_dump( $b ) ; $a:NULL $b:NULL class x { var $f = 'f' ; var $g = 'g' ;} $x = new x ; list( $a , $b ) = $x ; echo '$a:' ; var_dump( $a ) ; echo '$b:' ; var_dump( $b ) ; $a:NULL $b:NULL At 10:29 16.12. 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- And if it doesn't...? Zeev At 08:27 16/12/2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

At 03:58 AM 12/16/00 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:

What would that do? At 23:03 15/12/2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

Can we support the following syntax? foreach ($array as list($val1, $val2, $val3)) {

       ...

} I think it could be useful in a number of situations.

If $array has nested arrays, it would assign the values of those to the

list() variables, equivalent to:

foreach ($array as $inner_array) { list($val1, $val2, $val3) = $inner_array; } -Andrei

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