Re: Bring back call-time pass-by-reference

From: Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:40:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Bring back call-time pass-by-reference
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Karoly Negyesi wrote:
Hi, Although this should be an old hat, I am surprised PHP5 has not fixed it, let's fix it in PHP6. There are things you can't without call time pass-by-reference, most of all variables arguments with references. So, please de-deprecate it.
I am feeling froggy. I will bite. What can't you do? I can think of several really bad things that can happen. It can't be OOP cause objects are already always passed by reference. -- Brian Moon Senior Developer ------------------------------ http://dealnews.com/ It's good to be cheap =)

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