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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Variable scopes for language constructs (foreach, ...)
From: davidkmuir@gmail.com (David Muir)


>> personally I find that weird, and unintuitive, but changin that in a major
>> or minor version could be changed if we chose to.
> I think it's a behaviour that could be changed in some step like from
> 5.3 to 5.4 or so. Personally I don't think it would influence existing
> implementations much (who uses the key/value of a foreach after the
> loop?) or could easily be changed.

I do, and I've seen the construct used many times. It would be a major
pain to track down and fix if this behaviour changes.

Cheers,
David