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Subject: Declaring new elements as references while destructuring within a
 foreach() head
From: mickmackusa@gmail.com (mickmackusa)

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I want to ask about a quirk that I happened upon.  In truth, I expected my
code to fail with a fatal error, but it turns out that while using array
destructuring in the head of a foreach() loop it is permitted to declare
new elements if the value is a reference.

Is this a bug or an intended feature?

If not a bug should a note/section clarify this behavior?
https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php

My demonstration can be found at this evidently unhelpful question:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/77741716/2943403

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