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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:16:47 +0900
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To: Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com>
Cc: Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com>, Andrew Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>, 
	Tjerk Anne Meesters <datibbaw@php.net>, Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] re: removing an item from an array
From: yohgaki@ohgaki.net (Yasuo Ohgaki)

2012/8/22 Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>:
> Hi,
>
> 2012/8/22 Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com>:
>> On 21 August 2012 23:26, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>>> array_walk is the best(fast and memory efficient) way
>>> to delete elements.
>>
>> If array_walk() is the best (fast and memory efficient) way to delete
>> elements, why have we had the following line in the manual, for the
>> array_walk() callback, for over a decade [1]? (The exact phrasing has
>> changed slightly one time, but the message has remained the same)
>> "Only the values of the array may potentially be changed; its
>> structure cannot be altered, i.e., the programmer cannot add, unset or
>> reorder elements."
>>
>> [1] http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=75124
>
> 10 years ago log :)
> I'm not sure, but it had some problems with reference back then.
> There were many array functions that behaved wrong with reference
> used to be.
>
> I was annoyed by that, probably. That's why I wrote it, I suppose.
>
> Good catch.
> It should be removed now.

I thought it's in there now, but it's not.
What's the point of bring up old bug documentation now?
I really don't see.

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki