note 57719 deleted from function.array-shift by nlopess

Note Submitter: groups at 8legs dot co dot nz ---- As of version 5.0.5 it has been decreed that array_shift (and other methods that manipulate an array, like: array_pop, array_push) can no longer accept a reference, only a value. For example: Until 5.0.5 this was perfectly acceptable: $first_element = array_shift(functionThatReturnsAnArray()); now it would have to look a little like this: $arbitrary_array = functionThatReturnsAnArray() $first_element = array_shift($arbitrary_array); or $first_element = array_shift($arbitrary_array = functionThatReturnsAnArray()); The change apparently has something to do with possible memory corruption but that sounds like a cop out to me. Fix the memory corruption if it's a problem, don't break a widely used and hither-to perfectly legitimate piece of syntax, then foist it on an unsuspecting community in a minor version change. Very unimpressed with the cavalier attitude regarding this issue.