Re: Foreach list behaviour

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Laruence <laruence@php.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: >>> 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? >> Hi: >> >> yeah, we can trigger a notice if the container is not a array. >> >> but maybe deserve a RFC? > > I do not think it is necessary. It is an improvement of this newly > added feature and list. Hi: if we fixed this, what about following example: <?php $num = NULL; echo $num["xxx"]; does this also deserve a notice? thanks > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye -- Laruence Xinchen Hui http://www.laruence.com/