Re: Passing by reference

Hi Andi, is there a way so we can see the zend cvs commit messages? Derick Andi Gutmans wrote: > > Hi, > > I just commited a patch which lightens up the restrictions Zeev and I > introduced a few weeks ago in the CVS tree of passing certain arguments to > functions which declare the argument to be passed by reference. > It's a big patch so please try and see if it works. > If you have a function: > function foo(&$a) > { > } > The following can be passed to foo(): > a) A variable, i.e. foo($a) > b) A new statement, i.e. foo(new foobar()); > c) A reference returned from a function, i.e.: > function &bar() > { > $a = 5; > return $a; > } > foo(bar()); > > All other expressions are undefined and can not be passed by reference. > For example: > a) > function bar() // Note the missing & > { > $a = 5; > return $a; > } > foo(bar)); > > b) foo($a = 5); > c) foo(5); > > Please let me know if this solves some of the bugs people have been > reporting with the current CVS tree. > > Andi > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Derick Rethans --------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - www.php.net - derick@php.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- JDI Media Solutions - www.jdimedia.nl - d.rethans@jdimedia.nl H.v. Tussenbroekstraat 1 - 6952 BL Dieren - The Netherlands ---------------------------------------------------------------------