Re: in Operator
| From: | Andrea Faulds | 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
>
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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.
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Andrea Faulds
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