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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:52:18 -0600
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To: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
Cc: Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk>, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>, 
	David Lundgren <dlundgren@syberisle.net>, internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Allow Iterator to be used with current, next, reset,
 key functions
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Rasmus Schultz <rasmus@mindplay.dk> wrote:
>>> I'd like to just remind you of the fact that some
>>> of these functions, reset() and end() in particular, are often used
>>> not because someone cares about moving the internal pointer, but as a
>>> means of getting the first/last items of an array.
>>
>> I'm one of them.
>>
>> --
>> Yasuo Ohgaki
>> yohgaki@ohgaki.net
>
> Are you after the last value, the last key, or both?

To clarify, do you use the return value of these functions or rely on
the IAP moving to also get the key?