Re: re-referencing and how we could enable this *without* pointers

AL>> thus I thought we could enable a construct like this AL>> AL>> $barfoo&=$boo; AL>> AL>> what acts like in the example 1) store the "value" of $boo AL>> temporary anywhere 2) create a reference "$barfoo" to the AL>> variable $boo (function-scope) $foo (global-scope) are AL>> referencing to 3) overwrite the variable with the temporary AL>> stored value I do not get what you are meaning to do. There's absolutely no way to know which variable in which symbol table user had that is linked to your variable "$foo". So, you _can not_ relink *that* unknown variable to be reference to any other variable, because this would require knowing calling symbol table _and_ name of the variable in that sumbol table, which is (at least with current PHP) you have absolutely no way to know. -- Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com +972-3-6139665 ext.106