On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:06 AM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 3:28 PM Nikita Popov <nikita....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi internals, >> >> I'd like to address a common footgun when using foreach by reference: >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreach_unwrap_ref >> >> This addresses the issue described in the big red box at >> https://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php. While this >> is "not a bug" (as our bug tracker can regularly attest), it's rather >> unexpected, and we could easily avoid it... >> > > As the discussion has died down, I plan to open voting on this RFC soon. > > I have to admit that I'm less convinced of this than I was originally, > because there's a surprising number of edge cases involved. The behavior is > more intuitive on the surface, but things get more complicated when you > look at detailed language semantics. > I have ultimately decided to withdraw this proposal. Regards, Nikita
