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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Internal iteration API
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 10:32 +1000, David Muir wrote:
> What about extending the array typehint include ArrayAccess, and extend
> the Traversable typehint to include arrays?

For that all (internal) consumers of Traversable have to work with
arrays. i.e. <?php new IteratorIterator([1,2,3,4,5]); ?>. This could be
in the scope of the internal iteration but should not be forgotten.

johannes