AW: [PHP-DEV] return /* by reference */ new Foo() in PHP4

> > So, in case of "return new", wouldn't it make sense to remove the > > warning as the code is 'legal'? And please, don't start a new > > "it's > > just a friendly notice" flame war. > > It's just a notice, tune your error_reporting level accordingly. Sorry, but that is just a stupid killer argument. I thought I had written something like "please, don't start a new *it's just a friendly notice* flame war". May I conclude that what you really want to say is: "Yes, return /*byref*/ new Foo() _is_ bad code _unless_ inside Foo's constructor, $this is passed around and somebody somewhere stores yet another reference to it. Accept that you wrote broken code: return new Foo() is wrong, it needs to be return $tmp =& new Foo()." Shaking his head, Matthias