Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62761
Return-Path: <ajf@ajf.me>
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net
Received: (qmail 17670 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2012 17:51:31 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1)
  by localhost with SMTP; 3 Sep 2012 17:51:31 -0000
Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass
Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass
Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 64.22.89.133 as permitted sender)
X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me
X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.22.89.133 oxmail.registrar-servers.com  
Received: from [64.22.89.133] ([64.22.89.133:55947] helo=oxmail.registrar-servers.com)
	by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP
	id 36/A3-20751-22EE4405 for <internals@lists.php.net>; Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:51:31 -0400
Received: from [192.168.0.200] (5ad3285b.bb.sky.com [90.211.40.91])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(No client certificate requested)
	by oxmail.registrar-servers.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6A2FC7580CD;
	Mon,  3 Sep 2012 13:51:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <5044EDF5.7040407@ajf.me>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:50:45 +0100
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120714 Thunderbird/14.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com>
CC: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, Laruence <laruence@php.net>, 
 Jared Williams <jared.williams@ntlworld.com>,
 internals@lists.php.net
References: <20120902230741.TSGJ23973.aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@p2> <CABBJUpfGRsbDFy4A2C3y-4SUSc+82dSxPcNVJw3A4e8z1s=2hQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.DEB.2.02.1209030918370.25835@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl> <CAL+t6cEFGvVKVqkitMO9Ry7zry90-FiMTF8v8wp4XseuoAFawg@mail.gmail.com> <5044EAB4.40003@ajf.me> <CAL+t6cEfFas+7UQZejre2C+=9g7Vyttfj+OtphAjGPAo+7bFgw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAL+t6cEfFas+7UQZejre2C+=9g7Vyttfj+OtphAjGPAo+7bFgw@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Foreach list behaviour
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrew Faulds)

On 03/09/12 18:46, Sherif Ramadan wrote:
>
> It should absolute not cast anything. list($a, $b) = $c; is the
> equivalent of saying $a = $c[0]; $b = $c[1]; In this case $c just
> happens to be a scalar value and as such you can not derive anything
> from the scalar value in that context. It is implicitly null.
Ah, I guess I'm confusing GML and PHP array semantics, somehow... my bad.

-- 
Andrew Faulds
http://ajf.me/