Re: Problem with passing function return values by reference
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:53:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Problem with passing function return values by reference | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev php.qa |
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the 4.0.4-dev tree we added a check not to allow non-variables to be
> sent by reference. It seems to have broken some people's scripts. Can you
> please let us know if you're one of them and possibly a very short (very
> short :) reproducing script?
> I also have a trial patch ready but it still isn't a closed issue as to
> what is the best way to handle it. Any feedback we can get from you guys
> would give us enough information to think of what to do.
One of the things that broke is PHPDoc. It uses constructs like
$foo->bar($baz->zoo()).
-Andrei
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