Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #6240: is_reference()

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, André Langhorst wrote: > well, what was his reason? during some discussion we´ve found out that > zend vars have a parameter is_ref and thus... no problem I`d think > (var_dump() is capable of marking references too) > > we´ve also found out that it´s complicated to find out to what the > reference belongs too (for serializing), I think stas worked on this, > not sure Here's what Zeev said: Zeev Suraski wrote: > Here you have no way of knowing, since (I assume) you're passing the > arguments to my_func() by value. So the values $a and $b are really > not > related to the reference characteristics of $a and $b - they're copies > that have the same value. There's no way to tell, unless you request > the > arguments to be passed by reference (in which case they would evaluate > to > the same zval * and be tagged as is_ref). -Andrei UNIX is like sex: If you don't know it, you don't miss it. But if you know it, you'll need it. -- Anonymous.