Re: [VOTE] Making stdClass iterable

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 11:58 AM Craig Duncan <php@duncanc.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Following the discussion it's now time to vote on whether we make the > stdClass iterable or not. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/iterable-stdclass > > Note that while there is an implementation available, the vote is only on > whether stdClass should fulfil the Traversable interface or not. > Nikita had some ideas on a different implementation that I'll revisit if > the vote passes. > > Voting will end in two weeks on 2019-02-18 > > Thanks to everybody that shared their opinion and raised concerns during > the discussion. > > Craig I just wanted to pipe in to suggest an alternative approach to accomplish some of the same goals: an external PropertyIterator. - It could allow us to refine which property visibilities we care to iterate over. For instance, if we are in a protected or private context we may want to still only iterate over public properties. - I think that with typed properties we will see more data-only classes which would benefit from an external PropertyIterator. Of course, that still means stdClass isn't automatically iterable, but if you want it to be then you can pass in a PropertyIterator instead.