Bug #67782 [Opn]: Internal Cursors

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67782&edit=1 ID: 67782 Updated by: fredemmott@php.net Reported by: joelm@php.net Summary: Internal Cursors Status: Open Type: Bug Package: PHP Language Specification PHP Version: PHP-5.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: In case this does get documented: one weird case is that these also work with some container objects, but not subclasses of them - eg if you override offsetGet in an ArrayObject subclass, you get different results with cur/next/prev vs other forms of iteration. For what it's worth, HHVM hasn't implemented these for objects and we've had very few compatibility issues reported because of this; almost all of the reports actually turned out to be buggy PHP code because of the subtleties of it. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-06-28 21:55:42] stas@php.net I'm not sure this has a place in the spec, as this is largely an implementation detail, also one that changes somewhat between 5.6 and 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-08-05 17:11:59] joelm@php.net Description: ------------ https://github.com/php/php-langspec/blob/master/spec/12-arrays.md#arrays The concept of an array's internal cursor or an object's internal cursor is never mentioned. The state of the internal cursor of an array or object can be witnessed via the current(), key(), next(), prev(), reset(), end(), and each() library functions. While it's technically library functions that expose the state of the cursor to the programmer, you can find code deep in the core array/object implementation of PHP5 that deals with and maintains internal cursors. Also, internal cursors get mentioned in various parts of the php.net documentation, including the documentation for "foreach", so internal cursors are arguably a language feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67782&edit=1