PHP lazy array mapping
Is there a way of doing array_map but as an iterator? For example: foreach (new MapIterator($array, $function) as $value) { if ($value == $required) break; } The reason to do this is that $function is hard to calculate and $array has too many elements, only need to map until I find a specific value. array_map will calculate all values before I can search for the one I want. I could implement the iterator myself, but I want to know if there is a native way of doing this. I couldn't find anything searching PHP documentation. In short: No. There is no lazy iterator mapping built into PHP. There