Hashes don't have any notion of order so I don't quite understand what
you'd expect to see in $a and what in $b. Well actually I know what you
expect but it doesn't fit in with hashes.
It's not a bug but just the way list() works.
Andi
At 06:29 06/04/2002 +0000, Philip Olson wrote:
>Hello, the following behavior seems odd:
>
> $foo = array('a' => 'apple', 'b' => 'banana');
>
> // Notice - Undefined offset: 1
> // Notice - Undefined offset: 0
> list($a,$b) = $foo;
>
> // This of course works as expected
> while(list(,$ab) = each($foo)) {
> print $ab;
> }
>
>I recently documented this numerical requirement (starting
>at 0) as a <note> but find it odd. This is mentioned as a
>bug in a few places but I can't find any closed reports.
>It's a pretty good feature request, right?
>
>Regards,
>Philip
>
>
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