foreach($blah as $blah) = Bad Practice?

Although it is perfectly legal in PHP to use the same variable as the array and the individual value of a foreach loop. 1 major downside is that it then breaks that array for use further down the page.

I suppose it's not often that you'd use it multiple times in one page. Though one example would be pagination for example. Having it on top and bottom of a page for convenience, if you did foreach ($pages as $pages) then you wouldn't be able to use it after that.

Wouldn't it be best to always be sure to use foreach($pages as $page) ?

Why would you ever want to to use something like
It doesn't make sense at all to me!

I don't. It was something Daniel used in 0.x that I changed... but I am seeing he uses it in 1.x now as well. So I was wondering why.

Take a look at any file in catalog/view/theme/default/template/product/*.tpl

They all have

you are right!

I only did it with a few names.

its hard when you have one var called page that gives the page number and another called pages that holds all the page numbers.