$ref =& $this;

Hello, Dmitry committed a fix earlier to ignore the & in the statement above. I think this is not a good thing to do as it's simply conceptually wrong. The first thing is that ignoring syntax without issuing a warning is dubious because people might think it does actually work, and secondly because I think that the code above is wrong anyway - somewhat in the same way that "$this = new foo();" is wrong. There is never any need to assign $this by reference, nor to pass it by reference to a function as it's an object anyway, making the references pointless - I would even go as far as disallowing passing $this by references to a function - where the reference has to be ignored again, otherwise it allows you to chantge $this to a different object with: class Foo { function byRef(&$f) { $f = new Bar(); } function modifyThis() { $this->byRef($this); } } I think we should prevent people from writing syntax like this, as it is not obvious what is going to happen. This means that we should revert Dmitry's patch. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org