Re: Memory corruption in Zend, should we allow this?

AL>> $foobar->rfoo=&$a; AL>> $foobar->r2foo=&$foobar->rfoo; AL>> $foobar->rfoo=4; AL>> AL>> What are we assigning 4 here to? To all three of them, which are all reference-bound. AL>> The first question is, should we allow this? I think no, AL>> references to non-existing variables should be disallowed AL>> (although Zend allows a lot, this is no good). There's no such thing anyway - when variable needed (inlcuding taking it's address for referencing) it's created. AL>> I tried to simply do a AL>> echo $a; AL>> afterwards and wow!!! It works, sometimes! Intermittently PHP crashes, AL>> without reasons, in this case I put this code below by accident For me, it works each and every time. But I'm on Linux. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115