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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:21:07 +0100
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] foreach_variable supporting T_LIST
From: ajfweb@googlemail.com (Andrew Faulds)

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If I understand this correctly, this is like what Python let's you do with
tuples. It's handy for getting vector components, hostnames and port
numbers, etc. (I apologise for the Python comparison, it is just the
language where I usually encounter this, and it makes heavy use of
foreach-style loops and tuples)
On Jul 20, 2012 6:20 PM, "Stas Malyshev" <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> >    since I proposed last year,  and seems no argu here.
> >
> >    so maybe  we can just step into the voting phase?
>
> I'd like to know how it works with references. I.e., you can do:
> foreach($foo as &$bar)
>
> What about the list, how would you use that?
>
> Also, I'm not sure which use case we're solving here - could you give
> some examples where this would provide significant benefit?
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