On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Stefan Neufeind <neufe...@php.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> trying out the following source I was astonished to see that using
> list() does not work directly in a foreach() but works fine if used
> through a temporary variable.
>
>
Hi,

This feature was already voted in and accepted.
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreachlist#vote

It has been implemented in PHP 5.5


> Would allowing using list() inside the foreach()-statement be desired
> behaviour? Or is it just me? :-)
>
>
>   $a = array(
>         array(5, 'A'),
>         array(3, 'B'),
>   );
>   foreach($a as list($k, $v)) {
>         echo $k;
>   }
>
> Expected output: 53
>
> Result: syntax error, unexpected 'list' (T_LIST) in ...
>
>
> Works:
>   foreach($a as $b) {
>         list($k, $v) = $b;
>         echo $k;
>   }
>
>
> Kind regards,
>  Stefan
>
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