Re: foreach() for strings

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Stas Malyshev wrote: > On 6/20/11 9:15 AM, John Crenshaw wrote: > > > 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. > > I think you're right, TextIterator would be better (and also much easier to > implement, I think). Didn't we have it in Unicode branch? We could port it > back or we could have something along the lines of grapheme_extract... It depended on ICU there, and I would be against making a core thing in PHP 5.x depend on ICU. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug