note 49950 added to language.references.pass

PHP has a strange behavior when passing a part of an array by reference, that does not yet exist. <?php function func(&$a) { // void(); } $a['one'] =1; func($a['two']); ?> var_dump($a) returns array(2) { ["one"]=> int(1) ["two"]=> NULL } ...which seems to be not intentional! ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.pass.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+49950 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49950&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49950&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49950&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49950&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49950&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+49950&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php