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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 02:10:27 +0400
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Fix list() behavior inconsistency
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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I told it doesn't support strings and objects because it was designed this
way.
I don't know who and when did it.

It's not complicated to change it in any way.
The question which way is better, and it's the reason of voting.

I would prefer not to extend list() to support strings, but in case
"enabling" would win, I'll make it.

Thanks. Dmitry.




On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > It was on design. list() was intended to support plain arrays only.
>
> I'm not sure I'm getting this point - why list($a, $b) = $foo is not
> just translated as $a = $foo[0], $b = $foo[1], etc.? Is it hard to make
> it work that way?
>
> --
> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
> SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/
>

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