On 9 Mar, 2012, at 11:20 PM, Lazare Inepologlou <linep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Type casting combined with passing by reference is problematic in many
> ways. Just an example:
>
> fuction foo( string & $buffer) { ... }
> foo( $my_buffer );
>
> Here, $my_buffer has just been declared, so it is null. Should this be an
> error? I don't know! So, I think that that passing by reference should not
> be (immediately) supported.
>
Strictly speaking, if you add a type to a referenced variable in that way it's
only logical that you expect it to have a proper value when the function is
called. After all, it's not an output type declaration :)
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