Re: Question about socket ext. file descriptors

Andi Gutmans writes: > At 12:44 PM 3/29/2001 -0800, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > >Slightly different topic--is it a problem that call-time pass-by-ref > >is being deprecated but several functions require it in order to work? > > It is possible. Functions which require their argument by reference should > ask for it to be sent by reference and not expect the calling person to > write foo(&$bar). The BY_REF_ALLOW is a remainder of PHP 3 and is obsolete > with today's reference counting (I'm pretty sure about this but I just woke > up so I might be saying BS :). > > Andi OK, thanks. I keep getting bitten by functions which don't work without calling them like foo(&$bar), but PHP complains about that. 'Course I can always tell PHP to cope with it in php.ini, but that seems more like ignoring the problem than fixing it. :) Thanks for all the info, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Adcore Finland| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.adcore.com| |Ph: 1.604.709.0506 torben@adcore.com| +----------------------------------------------------------------+