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Request #70736 Support to swap() function
Submitted: 2015-10-19 04:12 UTC Modified: 2018-06-24 04:22 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:1.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:0 of 1 (0.0%)
From: david dot proweb at gmail dot com Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: No Feedback Package: Scripting Engine problem
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 [2015-10-19 04:12 UTC] david dot proweb at gmail dot com 
Description:
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This function should swap two variables. Currently it can be done by code a swap function, like:

function swap(&$a, &$b) {
    $tmp = $a;
    $a = $b;
    $b = $tmp;
}

I think that should be useful PHP do it alone, and simple to include it on code.

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 [2015-10-19 07:07 UTC] stas@php.net
-Package: PHP Language Specification +Package: Scripting Engine problem
 [2015-10-28 04:51 UTC] marcio@php.net 
What's the problem with `list($a, $b) = [$b, $a];` ?
 [2015-10-28 04:51 UTC] mail at jerrygrey dot me 
Pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1609
 [2018-06-16 13:46 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Feedback -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2018-06-16 13:46 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> What's the problem with `list($a, $b) = [$b, $a];` ?

Good question!
 [2018-06-24 04:22 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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