Re: bug when using foreach with references?

Richard K Miller wrote: > On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:42 AM, Antony Dovgal wrote: > >> On 22.10.2009 05:37, Richard K Miller wrote: >>> Is this a bug in PHP? >> >> Search the bug DB before asking such questions. >> >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29992 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39307 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40065 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40654 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41603 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43501 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43806 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43988 >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47388 >> > > Antony, > > I've seen some of those, though not all, but thought I'd bring it up for > discussion. I've appreciated the thoughtful responses, for example from > Marco Tabini, to help explain this. It still doesn't quite make sense to > me. > > Doesn't it seem alarming that there are so many bug reports on this > issue, even if from an internals perspective it makes sense to you? It is one of these things that make perfect sense when you think about it a little bit. Yes, it catches some people, just like strpos() returning character position 0 on a first-char match catches some people. There is no way to fix things like these without completely breaking things. If we had strpos not use 0-based string positions or if we arbitrarily broke references after loops, all sorts of other things would start breaking and no longer make sense. -Rasmus