Re: foreach and current()

Hi! On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets@gmail.com>wrote: > On 18.11.13, 18:14, Nicolai Scheer wrote: > > Hi all! > > > [using current() inside for loop does not work] > > > > Does anyone know what the reasoning behind this behavious is? > > current() implementation predates foreach and is totally separate. Main > difference is, that current()'s "pointer" is attached to the array, and > foreach's pointer is external. > > so you can not run several each()/current() loops on array at the same > time, but you can have any number of nested foreach's iterating over the > same array independently. > > They can't really be combined because of backwards compatibility > Ok, thanks for the clarification. Maybe inserting a hint about this into the documentation should be considered. Actually I would not use such code in the wild, it was more an educational question. :) Greetings Nico