在while循环中分配数组会导致无限循环

Question

$pie = array('Apple' => 1, 'Cherry' => 3, 'Pumpkin' => 6);
reset($pie);
while (list($k, $v) = each($pie)) {
    echo "$k => $v
";
    $desserts[]=$pie;
}

If the $desserts[]=$pie line is commented out, this code block executes as expected.

Why when it is uncommented does it go into an infinite loop?

I do not understand why that happens. This is a perfect example of what NOT to do, but I don't understand why the complete array is printed over and over. I thought just the first slice would be repeated.

Answer 1

In the manual, it warns you not to do what you're doing.

Caution: Because assigning an array to another variable resets the original arrays pointer, our example above would cause an endless loop had we assigned $fruit to another variable inside the loop.

See documenation for each().

You can achieve the same results using array_fill if you just wanted to make many copies of $pie.

 $desserts = array_fill(0,count($pie),$pie);