#29018 [Com]: function arguments 'null' and staticval with n passing by reference

ID: 29018 Comment by: josh at vodafone dot de Reported By: none at space dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: any PHP Version: 4.3.6 Assigned To: vrana New Comment: Ok. No pun intended. It's just so odd that we're stuck in a situation where a good solution has changed to something agreeably - not really elegant and - the reason for the change cannot be explained by the php team itself. I guess no further comment is needed. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-03 09:50:55] vrana@php.net Along workarounds I mentioned also one solution. I'll document that. foo(NULL) is maybe the most elegant solution in your eyes however this manner is deprecated :-(. I'm not sure why it's deprecated (probably for performance reasons) so I can't explain why it's deprecated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-02 15:44:38] josh at vodafone dot de Workarounds? How elegant! :P You got to be kidding, right? We were talking improvements! The workarounds are known by know. Is there nothing more elegant like foo(NULL); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-28 21:58:48] vrana@php.net Possible solution: function foo (& $var){ if (is_null($var)){return 0}; return(1); } $somevar = null; foo($somevar); Possible workarounds: allow_call_time_pass_reference can be set on per directory basis. @ can be added before function call (with side-effect of not displaying any errors of course) There's no other solution AFAIK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-19 14:24:07] jsabre at jjsbr dot tv I was wondering about this too... how can you deprecate this and not tell the community what is going on? I found only very little info about this issue out there. But meny people seem to truggle with it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-07 11:57:57] jform at helmsdeep dot org above: sorry, typo: function foo ($obj){ should obviously be function myfunc ($obj){ i was copying... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/29018 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=29018&edit=1