and what should it do?

i guess you want to have key and value in one step?

this is done by the foreach($array as $key => $value)
construct, does that satisfy your needs?

no, 'list' should assign an array to a list of variables.

$arr = array(array(1, 2), array(3, 4));

foreach ($arr as list($a, $b))
	echo "$a $b\n";

It's for someone else to decide whether to add this to 
the language, but until they do you can achieve the same
effect with:

$arr = array(array(1, 2), array(3, 4)); 
foreach ($arr as $narr) {
    list($a, $b) = array_values($narr);
    echo "$a, $b\n";
}

BTW--it would have helped if you had explained what 
results you were after and not just the syntax you wanted. ;)

foreach ($arr as $key => $val)

you haven't read the previous posts, have you?

I think it's a general problem with list() construct, that you cannot use it everywhere you can use an L-value (or however you guys call it in PHP)

It's in TODO already :)
Someone might implement it, but I guess it's not anytime soon.

I am working on this now, add firsh patch is submitted.

since the RFC didn't win the vote, change the status to suspended.

The fix for this bug has been committed.

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Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Implemented in php-trunk. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/foreachlist