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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate the extract function in PHP 7.3
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Am 15.09.2017 um 19:20 schrieb ilija.tovilo@me.com:
> Hi!
> 
> The `extract` function takes an associative array and puts it into the local symbol table.
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.extract.php
> 
> ```
> $array = [
>      ‘foo’ => ‘foo’,
>      ‘bar’ => ‘bar’,
> ];
> 
> extract($array);
> 
> print $foo; // "foo"
> ```
> 
> As a second parameter the `extract` function takes some options to make this function less dangerous, like `EXTR_SKIP` that prevents an existing local variable of being overwritten. There’s a few more options, go ahead and take a look at the documentation. `EXTR_OVERWRITE` is the default one though. You can also pass a prefix for the variable names as a third argument.
> 
> I seriously doubt the usefulness of this function

then don't use it - who are you proposing remove functionality because 
you don't use it - fine, nobody forces you to do so -  a foreach() 
replacement would miss EXTR_OVERWRITE - this whole thread is a "have 
solution, looking for a problem"