Re: big reference bug in (at least) PHP 5.0.5

Good point. I think it's somehow undesired behavior, but what can one do to change this? I guess it somehow is desired behavior... My bad I guess, Ron "Matthew Charles Kavanagh" <matthew@teh.ath.cx> schreef in bericht news:432AC30D.1050105@teh.ath.cx... > Ron Korving wrote: > > >The last item in the array is replaced, not by the first one of the second > >foreach, but by the item before the last item. That just doesn't make sense > >at all. > > > > > This is where you're going wrong (and where I was going wrong in > thinking about this before Antony's message). $item points to $array[2] > the whole time, and $array[2] is first overwritten by $array[0], then > $array[1], then $array[2]. > > This is a pretty interesting oddity in references that I hadn't > considered, though, and I'll be thinking about bizarre things I can do > with this for a while. :)