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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Iterable
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> Generally when I've seen an object that did not implement Traversable
> used with foreach it has been an error. The exception of course is
> stdClass, particularly because of json_decode(). There was no
> discussion on the list of allowing stdClass, but I did discuss it
> with some people in chat. Our consensus was that a casting to an
> array was a reasonable and simple requirement to allow an instance of
> stdClass to be iterable. I do not think stdClass was designed for

I'm not sure I understand this part. Do you mean that this code:

$a = json_decode('{"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3}');
foreach($a as $b) {
    var_dump($b);
}

will no longer work, or that it will still work, but stdClass would not
be instanceof Iterable?

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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com