note 30255 deleted from language.references.whatdo by sniper

Note Submitter: Jeb. ---- I'm not certain if this is deliberate or a bug (I'm thinking the latter), but the following code will throw a parser error: $obj->GET =& isset($_GET) ? $_GET : $HTTP_GET_VARS; The error returned will be something like: "Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ISSET, expecting T_NEW or T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or '$' in" etc etc etc. It appears you cannot assign references in conjunction with the ternary operator - you must use a complete if...else() statement instead.