Re: Incorrect description of function array_map()?

Robert Woodall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.documentation.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I kinda thought maybe it should say that it applies the function to generate the value at that index position.


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> On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:00 AM, Peter Hunkeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks.
> I'll report on github next time.
> --
> Peter
> 
>> Am 02.03.2022 um 13:24 schrieb Christoph M. Becker:
>>> On 01.03.2022 at 22:07, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>>> 
>>> I wonder whether the documentation of the array_map() function is correct?
>>> 
>>> The documentation describes arrays as being "ordered maps that
>>> associates values to keys". The "key" is what is called "index" in other
>>> languages. The PHP doc mostly uses the word "key", and less often the
>>> word "index".
>>> 
>>> I further read in the doc of "array_map()" that "array_map() returns an
>>> array containing the results of applying the callback to the
>>> corresponding index of array (and arrays if more arrays are provided)
>>> used as arguments for the callback."
>>> 
>>> But the function applies the callback to each "value" of the array, not
>>> the "keys", right? Shouldn't the doc say "... applying the callback to
>>> the corresponding values of array..."?
>> Thanks!  Fixed as
>> <https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/e8c83816e0ca7a4136a5991b2227ddf00fa9adc6>.
>> 
>> Please report documentation bugs at
>> <https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues> next time. :)
>> 
>> --
>> Christoph M. Becker
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