Hi Walt:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:22:31AM -0800, walt boring wrote:
>
> This is very sad that the only real argument in the bug against fixing
> it was
> that it was hard. Come on! This is such a fundamental thing to be able
> to do.
>
> function &foo() {
> return something_else();
> }
The thing is, as I understand it, references are referring to a variable.
Your example doesn't have a variable to refer to.
If I misunderstand what's going on, I trust someone on the list will
correct me.
> going to make a lot
> of php folks upset, and make it much more painfull to upgrade to php5.
But the error rests on the people who made the mistake of coding returns
by reference on items that aren't variables.
Enjoy,
--Dan
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