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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:14:50 -0600
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To: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] bug when using foreach with references?
From: richardkmiller@gmail.com (Richard K Miller)

> It would be arbitrarily breaking an explicit reference.  I know I have
> code lying around that relies on multiple loops cleaning up a big
> complicated multi-level array.  I do ugly things with references into
> that array and it would completely break if PHP magically deleted my
> references whether they are in the iterator or elsewhere.
>
> This has been this way for 6+ years and it is well documented on the
> http://php.net/foreach page.  (see the big red warning box)
>
> -Rasmus

Fair enough. Thanks for examining it again with me.

Best,
Richard