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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 11:28:19 +0200
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To: Laruence <laruence@php.net>
Cc: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, Jared Williams <jared.williams@ntlworld.com>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Foreach list behaviour
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Laruence <laruence@php.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Laruence wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Jared Williams <jared.williams@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >         Just looking at the foreach list behaviour and it does this...
>>> >
>>> > $i = [1, 2, 3];
>>> > foreach($i as list($a, $b))
>>> >         var_dump($a, $b);
>>> >
>>> > Outputs....
>>> >
>>> > NULL
>>> > NULL
>>> > NULL
>>> > NULL
>>> > NULL
>>> > NULL
>>> >
>>> > There is no test I can see covering this, so cannot tell if its
>>> > expected.
>>> >
>>> > To me, $i does not meet the expected format, so should be some sort of
>>> > error happening.
>>>
>>>    this is expected behavior,  like:
>>> <?php
>>> list($a, $b) = 1;
>>> var_dump($a);
>>
>> Ew, that's quite nasty (in both cases). Is there a way how we could turn
>> those into a notice or so?
> Hi:
>
> yeah, we can trigger a notice if the container is not a array.
>
> but maybe deserve  a  RFC?

I do not think it is necessary. It is an improvement of this newly
added feature and list.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye