Re: foreach() using current() strange beahvior

From: Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:07:06 +0000
Subject: Re: foreach() using current() strange beahvior
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On 6/23/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: Regardless of additional documentation or not, I think it's rather poor choice of programming style to mix the foreach construct with the older, lower level, internal array manipulation and probing functions. I think that is what should be documented since you just might get weird results :)
i agree; at least i have never had a need to determine the current index of the internal array pointer in nearly 3 years working w/ php. although it is somewhat interesting to experiment w/ the language to see how it behaves :) -nathan On 6/23/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 15:15 -0400, Nathan Nobbe wrote: in summary, COW or not; i think the documentation could be revised a bit to clarify these subtleties. Regardless of additional documentation or not, I think it's rather poor choice of programming style to mix the foreach construct with the older, lower level, internal array manipulation and probing functions. I think that is what should be documented since you just might get weird results :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn |
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