note 114519 added to class.traversable
| From: | mathdegiovani at gmail dot com | Date: | Mon, 03 Mar 2014 13:41:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 114519 added to class.traversable | ||
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Note that instanceof Traversable does not work for stdclass objects, so if you are this check (as
@kevinpeno) to decide whether you can iterate, it will fail for direct instances.
In particular:
<?php
$obj = new stdclass();
$obj->prop = 'hello';
var_dump($obj instanceof Traversable);
//outputs bool(false)
?>
My own solution is to check whether the object also descends from stdclass, but that also fails to
catch some objects that are iterable.
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