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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 06:35:59 +0100
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] in Operator
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
>> On 20 Jan 2015, at 03:30, Mike Willbanks <pencap@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am very familiar with the in operator.  However,  the implementation
>> would be incomplete without handling loops via the in operator.  Many
>> people when seeing an in operator also think of JavaScript.  In that cas=
e
>> the in operator iterates over properties.  As such in PHP we should be a=
ble
>> to iterate over associative arrays should the syntax be added.
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statem=
ents/for...in
>
> Why? We already have foreach/as which does exactly that, and unlike JS wh=
ich added for/of, there=E2=80=99s nothing wrong with PHP=E2=80=99s foreach =
so we don=E2=80=99t need support for a new symbol.

Indeed, exactly same feature.

Otherwise, well done again Andrea, love it ::)

--=20
Pierre

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