Description:
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It's very well documented that behaviour of variables passed by reference into a foreach can have unexpected behaviours when the variables were previosly used.

From PHP documentation:
"Warning

Reference of a $value and the last array element remain even after the foreach loop. It is recommended to destroy it by unset(). Otherwise you will experience the following behavior"

However I found that in some cases even when the variable used as reference is previously removed using "unset" the issue persist.

I can reproduce this issue from PHP 5.6 TO PHP 7.4 with the same result.

It seems that if variables previously are removed (unset) and used again as reference into the foreach can have a wrong behaviour.

This issue is probably due the way that PHP keep the internal references.



Test script:
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See the following code
https://3v4l.org/h6d0G

The array subnodes "needle" and "haystack" were automatically appended for the first element of the array even if the variable used as reference was previously removed (unset).

In the following example the result is the expected one when the variables were not previously used:
https://3v4l.org/4kRmH 



Expected result:
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array(2) {
  ["18427e904f7a227e8c3b80dd2858a70e"]=>
  array(2) {
    ["needle"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(3) {
        ["starts_at"]=>
        int(11821)
        ["ends_at"]=>
        int(14377)
        ["length"]=>
        int(2556)
      }
    }
    ["haystack"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(4) {
        ["starts_at"]=>
        int(12227)
        ["ends_at"]=>
        int(14783)
        ["length"]=>
        int(2556)
        ["original"]=>
        string(3) "foo"
      }
    }
  }
  ["dd0c26f35ebf55de25eabea3edbfba32"]=>
  array(2) {
    ["needle"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(3) {
        ["starts_at"]=>
        int(17255)
        ["ends_at"]=>
        int(32431)
        ["length"]=>
        int(15176)
      }
    }
    ["haystack"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(4) {
        ["starts_at"]=>
        int(17776)
        ["ends_at"]=>
        int(33032)
        ["length"]=>
        int(15256)
        ["original"]=>
        string(3) "foo"
      }
    }
  }
}


Actual result:
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array(2) {
  ["18427e904f7a227e8c3b80dd2858a70e"]=>
  array(2) {
    ["needle"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(1) {
        [0]=>
        array(4) {
          ["starts_at"]=>
          int(17255)
          ["ends_at"]=>
          int(32431)
          ["length"]=>
          int(15176)
          ["original"]=>
          string(3) "foo"
        }
      }
    }
    ["haystack"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(1) {
        [0]=>
        array(4) {
          ["starts_at"]=>
          int(17776)
          ["ends_at"]=>
          int(33032)
          ["length"]=>
          int(15256)
          ["original"]=>
          string(3) "foo"
        }
      }
    }
  }
  ["dd0c26f35ebf55de25eabea3edbfba32"]=>
  array(2) {
    ["needle"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(3) {
        ["starts_at"]=>
        int(17255)
        ["ends_at"]=>
        int(32431)
        ["length"]=>
        int(15176)
      }
    }
    ["haystack"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      array(3) {
        ["starts_at"]=>
        int(17776)
        ["ends_at"]=>
        int(33032)
        ["length"]=>
        int(15256)
      }
    }
  }
}