note 32179 added to language.references.pass

Something is very fishy with object-by-reference semantics: It doesn't seem to be possible to replace the passed object references with other references: class a{ var $val; function a($val){ $this->val = $val;} } function replace(&$src, &$dest){ $dest =& $src; } $src = new a(2); $dest = new a(1); replace($src,$dest); $src->val=5; echo $dest->val; This code prints "1", not "5". Changing the '=&' with '=' you gets you '2', as expected. I can find no way to get the actual reference across. I can work around it by returning the reference in stead, but that only works for one ref. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.pass.php Edit Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+32179 Delete Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+32179&report=yes Reject Note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+32179&report=yes