note 18958 added to language.references.whatdo

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. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.whatdo.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+18958 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+18958 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+18958