Re: Foreach list behaviour
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:20:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Foreach list behaviour | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Laruence wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Jared Williams <jared.williams@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > Just looking at the foreach list behaviour and it does this...
> >
> > $i = [1, 2, 3];
> > foreach($i as list($a, $b))
> > var_dump($a, $b);
> >
> > Outputs....
> >
> > NULL
> > NULL
> > NULL
> > NULL
> > NULL
> > NULL
> >
> > There is no test I can see covering this, so cannot tell if its
> > expected.
> >
> > To me, $i does not meet the expected format, so should be some sort of
> > error happening.
>
> this is expected behavior, like:
> <?php
> list($a, $b) = 1;
> var_dump($a);
Ew, that's quite nasty (in both cases). Is there a way how we could turn
those into a notice or so?
cheers,
Derick
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