note 47416 added to language.references.whatdo

In reply to lars at riisgaardribe dot dk, When a variable is copied, a reference is used internally until the copy is modified. Therefore you shouldn't use references at all in your situation as it doesn't save any memory usage and increases the chance of logic bugs, as you discoved. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.whatdo.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+47416 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47416&report=yes Reason: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47416&report=yes&reason=bad+code Reason: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47416&report=yes&reason=spam Reason: useless example -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47416&report=yes&reason=useless+example Reason: contains commercial links -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47416&report=yes&reason=contains+commercial+links Reason: useless note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47416&report=yes&reason=useless+note Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+47416&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php