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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:23:24 +0000
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To: Dan Ackroyd <Danack@basereality.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Making stdClass iterable
From: php@duncanc.co.uk (Craig Duncan)

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On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 20:13, Dan Ackroyd <Danack@basereality.com> wrote:

> I think the correct long-term solution for this would be for us to
> revisit the union type RFC (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/union_types) and
> so be able to define a type like:
>
> type foreachable = object|iterable;
>

This argument makes sense to me in a pre-iterable world, but as we already
have an iterable type I don't understand why it shouldn't accept stdClass
as well as array.
What about an array is more iterable than a stdClass object?

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