#31441 [NEW]: passing by reference in variable-length argument lists
From: hagen at cookfast dot net
Operating system:
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: passing by reference in variable-length argument lists
Description:
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In my opinion it should be possible to pass by reference when using
variable-length argument lists. I know that there are quite a lot of
workarounds for this but none of them is really appealing to me. For the
sake of orthogonality it should be possible to use user defined functions
with variable-length argument lists in the same way as without.
See my listing for a possible use of this.
Do not tell me these variables could be packed into an array.
This feature request does not contain scope inheritance as requested in
bug #11472.
Reproduce code:
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// We've got some strings from user input
// named $a, $b and $c
// and want them to be escaped and converted somehow
// with passing by reference this could look like
my_conversion($a,$b,$c);
// possible workaround now:
list($a,$b,$c) = my_conversion($a,$b,$c)
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- hagen at cookfast dot net