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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:38:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Consolidation of Traversable and array operations
From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner)

On 16/07/15 11:26, Rowan Collins wrote:
> Benjamin Eberlei wrote on 15/07/2015 21:19:
>>
>> But instanceof and anything related to Reflection or get_class or
>> relevant code will fail on array.
> 
> 
> Ah, yes, I hadn't thought of reflection type things. I don't think
> instanceof would be a problem, because checking for any class or
> interface other than Traversable would correctly return false; not sure
> if it would make sense for "array() instanceof Traversable" to return
> true or not...
> 

Maybe some pseudotype like callable (e.g. iteratable) makes more sense then?


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Mike