From: jsimlo at yahoo dot com
Operating system: irrelevant
PHP version: 5.3.1
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Lazy-evaluated multiple-array foreach
Description:
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I would like to suggest an extended foreach syntax like this:
<?php
foreach ($a, $b, $c as $k => $i)
echo $i;
?>
Which would result in the same execution as current:
<?php
foreach (array ($a, $b, $c) as $x)
foreach ($x as $k => $i);
echo $i;
?>
The reason for requesting this is (simplicity and) possibility of
lazy-evaluation of the source arrays. The source arrays can be expressions
that take time to compute; or consume large memory each while they exist;
and the body of the foreach can break the foreach cycle, rendering a
lazy-evaluation quite worth the trouble. Example:
<?php
// several not-so-easy-to-compute arrays
foreach (
$item1->GetChilds(),
$item2->GetChilds(),
$item3->GetParent()->GetChilds(),
$item3->GetComputeSomethingDifficultChilds()
as $child
)
// searching for a child with a special name
if ($child->GetName() == 'something') break;
// now we got a child of such name (or the last cycled child)
print_r ($child);
Reproduce code:
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>From manual page: control-structures.foreach
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