Re: New syntax for multidimensional array loop with foreach
2013/6/27 Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 16:58 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Christian Stoller <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>> > The new syntax could make it shorter and faster to write... but maybe it's
>> > a bit too confusing?
>> >
>> > $count = 0;
>> > foreach ($array as $key => $innerArray as $innerKey => $value) {
>> > $count += $value;
>> > // and do something with $key and $innerKey
>> > }
>> >
>>
>> I'm against this feature. It makes the code marginally shorter, but a good
>> bit less readable. Combined with the break/continue issue, I don't think we
>> gain anything by introducing this syntax.
>
> +1
>
> Let me add to this:
>
> While the pattern pattern exists often there are things to be done in
> the outer iteration, too. So I think the pure form ofthis double-foreach
> is not as common as it might seem ...
>
> And you can write
> foreach ($array as $i) foreach ($i as $innerKey => $value) {
> }
> it is not that much longer, but way more explicit on what is going on,
> visually parsing the suggested form needs more concentration.
>
> johannes
+1 to what Nikita and Johannes said.
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