note 18958 deleted from language.references.whatdo by colder

Note Submitter: todd at nemi dot net ---- tbutzon@imawebdesigner.com Makes an excellent point in his reference examples, however, what you find in practice is that you do not need the & in the function definition to actually assign the reference. It is redundant. The proper way to return a reference is by using: function &myClass() { //...some code... return $this; } $myObj =& new myClass() ...however, this produces the exact same result: function myClass() { //...some code... return $this; } $myObj =& new myClass() Apparently, the Ampersand on the assignment is all that is really needed for a reference to truly be assigned. The Ampersand on the function definition actually does nothing.