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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:25:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] foreach() for strings
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

As long as it works on a premise that a "string" is a byte array and
each element represents 1 byte, +1 from me.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Robert Eisele <robert@xarg.org> 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.
>
> If you want to implement a parser in PHP, you have to go the way with for +
> strlen + substr() or $x[$i] to address one character of the string. We could
> overdo the functionality of foreach()
> by implementing LVAL's, too, in order to access single bits but this is
> really uncommon, even if the way of thinking could be, that foreach() gives
> a single attribute of each value, no matter
> if it's a complex object with the iterator interface or a primitive. What do
> you think about this one? My point of view is, that foreach() is very
> useful, which was acknowledged by many ppl via the comments of my article.
>
> I think, adding features like this persuades the one or the other PHP user
> to upgrade to 5.4.
>
> Robert
>