On Thursday, 21 November 2024 at 10:05, Christian Schneider
<cschn...@cschneid.com> wrote:
> Am 14.11.2024 um 22:27 schrieb Gina P. Banyard intern...@gpb.moe:
>
> > Agreed, this bites us constantly when needing to reason about what an
> > "object" is in PHP.
> > Similar to array it mixes the concept of a struct, with that of a reference
> > value, and "overloading" various behaviours (e.g. iterators and
> > ArrayAccess).
> > It is extremely simple to go from foreach ($object as $prop) {} to
> > forearch(get_object_vars($object) as $prop) {}
> > and mandating this would resolve a lot of complexity, be that from the
> > perspective of what is "possible" or not to do, and from an engine PoV.
>
>
> Is there (currently) a difference between
> foreach ($obj ...)
> and
> foreach (get_object_vars($obj) ...)?
>
> If there is then the migration is not always "extremely" simple, no?
> If there isn't then we can simply define that from now on the former is
> equivalent to the second one and ignore future changes to visibility, hooks
> etc.
>
> My main point is that over the last years a lot of (for our code unnecessary)
> complexity was added but I hardly complained because other people have other
> needs. I just ask for similar consideration in return when stripping stuff.
There is not, see: https://3v4l.org/T7tSu/rfc#vgit.master
Best regards,
Gina P. Banyard
