Re: Static Class Member References

Ah, so assigning a reference to a variable already holding a reference changes that variable's reference only in the same way that unsetting a reference doesn't unset the other variables referencing the same thing, yes? $a = 5; $b = &$a; print $a; > 5 unset($b); // does not affect $a print $a; > 5 // and according to Mike's previous message $b = &$a; $c = 10; $b = &$c; // does not affect $a print $a > 5 That makes a lot of sense. If it didn't work this way there would be no easy way to untangle references. In the case of foreach($array as $key => &$value) { ... } the first value in the array would continuously be overwritten by the next value. 1. $value gets reference to first array value 2. on each step through the loop, the first array value would be overwritten by the next value in the loop since $value is forever tied to it by the initial reference assignment. That would be a Bad Thing (tm). Thanks for the clarification, Mike. David