Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #6238: var_dump() param for deactivating reference following

From: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:24:04 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #6238: var_dump() param for deactivating reference following
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>> It would be very, very helpful if we could *disable* >> reference resolution in var_dump() output, working with You cannot really "disable" reference resolution, as you cannot disable hardlinks in Unix. But you can solve circular reference problem with var_dump. I plan to take on this after 4.0.2 if nobody does it before. The idea is to keep list of variables already visited. >> It╢s really handy that var_dump() recognizes if it╢s a >> variable or not (by prepending &) and I can imagine that It doesn't catch all circular cases possible. At least, I'm not sure it does, and my solution is much more clean anyway. -- Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com +972-3-6139665 ext.106

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