Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:53390 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41284 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2011 11:56:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jun 2011 11:56:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=johannes@schlueters.de; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=johannes@schlueters.de; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain schlueters.de from 217.114.211.66 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: johannes@schlueters.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.114.211.66 config.schlueters.de Received: from [217.114.211.66] ([217.114.211.66:51918] helo=config.schlueters.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4D/5B-34681-9753FFD4 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:56:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.2.230] (ppp-93-104-43-78.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.43.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by config.schlueters.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1095B74427; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:56:39 +0200 (CEST) To: Robert Eisele Cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:56:37 +0200 Message-ID: <1308570997.3172.21.camel@guybrush> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] foreach() for strings From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=) On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:27 +0200, Robert Eisele wrote: > foreach() has many functions, looping over arrays, objects and implementing > the iterator interface. I think it's also quite intuitive to use foreach() > for strings, too. I would prefer a TextIterator as we had in the old PHP 6 as this allows more powerful filtering etc. using iterator semantics even though this might be a bit slower. johannes