Re: in Operator

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > 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...in > > 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. Indeed, exactly same feature. Otherwise, well done again Andrea, love it ::) -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org