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 "$foo". So, you _can not_ relink *that* unknown variable to be
reference to any other variable, because this would require knowing
calling symbol table _and_ name of the variable in that sumbol table,
which is (at least with current PHP) you have absolutely no way to know.
<thoroughly>
hey, it´s a kind of tweaking, you´re simply bypassing that lack of information,
and if I´m right that ref-counting prevents us from performance hurts,
it´s a very good solution then - it´s not the the way you´d expect,
in fact the expression i mentioned is a short form for a funtion doing this
it´s the twisted way, you´re doing it reversed, it´s not very complicated but effective
// start logic
function re_link(&$to_merge_with,&$get_value_from) {
$tmp=$get_value_from; // save value
$get_value_from=&$to_merge_with; // now you´ve linked all the three but lost the value
$get_value_from=$tmp; } // restore the value
// end logic
// start testcase
$tmp=5;
$tmp2=&$tmp;
$tmp3=&$tmp;
$tmp4=&$tmp;
$variable_which_is_now_a_reference_2_tmp=&testcase($tmp);
echo $tmp;
?><BR><?php
echo $tmp==$variable_which_is_now_a_reference_2_tmp;
function &testcase(&$tmp) {
$variable_which_would_like_to_be_a_reference_2_tmp='foooo';
re_link($tmp,$variable_which_would_like_to_be_a_reference_2_tmp);
return $variable_which_would_like_to_be_a_reference_2_tmp; }
// end testcase
so far we´ve reached *everything* we wanted to do, *without*
"knowing which variable in which symbol table user had that is linked to variable"
we´ve linked *all* variables and assigned them "foreign"-value
and to avoid the need to let the user create this function every time, we´re doing
it transparently with a construct *like*
$new_ref&=&$merger_ref;
or
$new_ref&=$merger_ref;
best regards ;)
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