note 85118 added to language.references

To ffmandu13 at hotmail dot com, that's not correct. If you do a little research, you'll see that the Zend Engine employs "copy-on-write" logic, meaning that variables will be referenced instead of copied until it's actually written to. There's really no need to circumvent Zend's internal optimizations, since they're probably much more advanced than you think. Here's a good link to read over: http://bytes.com/forum/thread769586.html As stated, there's rarely (if ever) a need to use references for optimization purposes. When in doubt, remember that in most cases, the Zend Engine > you. ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 67.79.71.114 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/85118 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85118/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85118/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85118/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85118/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85118/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85118/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85118 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/85118 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php