note 54132 deleted from functions.arguments by nikic

Note Submitter: benk at NOSPAM dot icarz dot com ---- This isn't necessarily the right place to store this piece of information, but I discovered a neat feature of the 'by reference' operator (&). You can use this assignment operator to assign a pointer to another variable. This makes it possible to update BOTH varaibles and have the value change in the other. I have not yet explored scope of this test, but here is a simple test that I ran on PHP 4.3.9 with the following results: $abc = "Test"; $def = ""; print("ABC = $abc\tDEF = $def\n"); // ABC = Test DEF = $def = &$abc; print("ABC = $abc\tDEF = $def\n"); // ABC = Test DEF = Test $abc = "test2"; print("ABC = $abc\tDEF = $def\n"); // ABC = test2 DEF = test2 $def = "nextval"; print("ABC = $abc\tDEF = $def\n"); // ABC = nextval DEF = nextval unset($def); print("ABC = $abc\tDEF = $def\n"); // ABC = nextval DEF = $def = "yet another value"; print("ABC = $abc\tDEF = $def\n"); // ABC = nextval DEF = yet another value