[mdaniel]

For that code snippet specifically, you're actually better off pre-declaring the vars since the loop repeatedly calls `count($array)` but hopefully(!) its size doesn't change over time.

Is there such a function in php like "enumerate" in python, that yields a tuple of (counter, item) for each item in the first argument to enumerate? That is to say: is it possible to do what you're asking with composition rather than a language change?

[johannes1234321]

Since count is it's own opcodes in the VM and php hashtables keep the number of elements around and don't have to be counted there shouldn't be much difference between reading a variable and calling count.

(Since some time in PHP 7, before that count() went via function call overhead)