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Doc Bug #69986 Foreach Documentation incorrectly implies generators cannot be used
Submitted: 2015-07-03 09:14 UTC Modified: 2015-07-06 12:35 UTC
From: nsalter at eandl dot co dot uk Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
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 [2015-07-03 09:14 UTC] nsalter at eandl dot co dot uk 
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The sentence which says "foreach works only on arrays and objects" should probably be changed to read "foreach works only on arrays, objects and generators"

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 [2015-07-06 12:35 UTC] bwoebi@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Not a bug
 [2015-07-06 12:35 UTC] bwoebi@php.net 
Generators, just like any other sort of Traversable, are all objects.
It just means that you can't use foreach on scalars.
 
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