RE: [PHP-DEV] foreach() for strings

> From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org] > > As long as it works on a premise that a "string" is a byte array and > each element represents 1 byte, +1 from me. Code written on this premise is almost always bug central when people finally get around to realizing why they really do need to support wide characters (and everybody does, because people like to paste stuff containing non-break-spaces, and decorative quotes). I really don't think this single byte character mentality should be encouraged. Also, how do you think this will work with the Unicode conversion in PHP 6? Guaranteed, this will break stuff. Some people will have written code to iterate characters, assuming single byte characters, some people will have written code ACTUALLY intending to iterate as a byte array. Sadly, we can almost certainly assume that the single byte characters assumption (which is wrong) will also be, by far, the most common. Supporting that most common case when moving to PHP 6 would require breaking the binary case (which was the only properly written code in the first place.) On the other hand, supporting the binary case means breaking the most common case. John Crenshaw Priacta, Inc.