Re: foreach() for strings
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:06:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: foreach() for strings | ||
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:27 +0200, Robert Eisele wrote:
> > foreach() has many functions, looping over arrays, objects and implementing
> > the iterator interface. I think it's also quite intuitive to use foreach()
> > for strings, too.
>
> I would prefer a TextIterator as we had in the old PHP 6 as this allows
> more powerful filtering etc. using iterator semantics even though this
> might be a bit slower.
I think TextIterator is another good addition, but it will make PHP
depend on ICU. Therefore, I think just a foreach for strings seems
valuable to me.
Derick