Re: extract(EXTR_REFS) and pass-by-reference

On 2005/01/02, at 21:23, Marcus Boerger wrote:

while i tried to improve performance of the array functions i developed a new pass type - pass as const which doesn't touch the passed variable at all and is compatible with temp vars, too. Maybe your problem here is a reason to really implement that. Andi what do you think?

I think the feature you are proposing will likely be necessary either way. It can also make the output of debug_zval_dump() reliable as implicit separation of zval instances results with bogus reference counts. Moriyoshi