function foo($t) {
     $result;
     foreach($t as $val) {
         $result = dosomething($result, $val);
     }
     return $result;
}

function foo(Traversable $t) {

Argument 1 passed to foo() must implement interface Traversable, array given

function foo(array $a) {}
function bar(Traversable $a) {}
function foobar($a) {}

$array = array(1,2,3)
$traversable = new MyTraversableObject();

foo($array);
foo(iterator_to_array($traversable));

bar(new ArrayIterator($array));
bar($traversable);

foobar($array);
foobar($traversable);

function MyFunction($traversable)
{
    if(!$traversable instanceof Traversable && !is_array($traversable))
    {
        throw new InvalidArgumentException(sprintf(
            'Myfunction($traversable = %s): Invalid argument $traversable.'
            ,var_export($traversable, true)
       ));
    }
}

public function MyMethod($traversable)
{
    if(!$traversable instanceof Traversable && !is_array($traversable))
    {
        throw new InvalidArgumentException(sprintf(
            '%s::MyMethod($traversable): Invalid argument $traversable of type `%s`.'
            ,get_class($this)
            ,gettype($traversable)
       ));
    }
}