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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:09:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] foreach() for strings
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

2011/6/20 Johannes Schl=FCter <johannes@schlueters.de>:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:27 +0200, Robert Eisele wrote:
>> foreach() has many functions, looping over arrays, objects and implement=
ing
>> 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.

A foreach with string should be seen as binary buffer, with no clue
about its content and only to fetch it byte by byte.

TextIterator can be smarter and support unicode when ICU is available.

Cheers,
--=20
Pierre

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