#49083 [NEW]: 3 things you can do with references

From: allyourcode at gmail dot com Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: 3 things you can do with references Description: ------------ http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.references.whatdo.php Near the bottom of this page (but before the notes), it says "The second thing references do". It later mentions a third thing that references do. Not remembering anything being mentioned as the first thing that references can do, I got a little confused. It took a bit of scrolling around and re-reading, but I eventually figured out the first thing was "PHP references allow you to make two variables to refer to the same content." Reproduce code: --------------- --- From manual page: language.references.whatdo --- -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49083&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49083&r=mysqlcfg