Re: Fwd: Re: [PHP-PEAR] PEAR::isError()

At 23:01 4/12/2000, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

Quoting Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>: Why does it make sense to send constants by reference? It doesn't, unless you mean that the boolean value true (I capitalized it in a mistaken attempt to add clarity; sorry) is a constant. If you have a method which returns true on success and an error object on failure, it would be nice to be able to pass that to PEAR::isError(). However, as things stand, we can only do that if PEAR::isError() doesn't take parameters by reference, which means that we get a performance hit every time it _is_ called with an object.

true/false behave like constants, pretty much. I wouldn't change scripts to pass things by reference just because it's faster, if it's not the right thing to do, and apparently, it's not the case here... Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/