Re: in Operator

From: Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 05:15:55 +0000
Subject: Re: in Operator
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Hi Mike, > On 20 Jan 2015, at 03:30, Mike Willbanks <pencap@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am very familiar with the in operator. However, the implementation > would be incomplete without handling loops via the in operator. Many > people when seeing an in operator also think of JavaScript. In that case > the in operator iterates over properties. As such in PHP we should be able > to iterate over associative arrays should the syntax be added. > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/for...inÿ¢¼3 > <ö¼H€‚8÷ Why? We already have foreach/as which does exactly that, and unlike JS which added for/of, there’s nothing wrong with PHP’s foreach so we don’t need support for a new symbol. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/

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