note 50004 added to language.oop.newref

What stupid things are you doing with PHP that would cause a reference to take longer than a copy? In C using references takes no time as they are nothing by indexes into memory.. Copies imply a copy byte operation which never takes constant time.. Makes me think PHP developers are complete imbeciles, or the guys who write these manuals.. When I came upon the error "pass-by-reference" deprecated, I could foresee the plod of lunacy going about.. I had discussed this with the coder of "singapore" and she seemed to think copys take less time than references, and you are saying the same thing.. So why in C does this take no time: char *a = "this is a string"; char *p = a; If you can prove to me that this takes less time than p = malloc(sizeof(a)) + 1; memcpy(p,a) p[sizeof(a)] = null; Then I probably can tell you why John Kerry didn't get elected.. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.newref.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+50004 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50004&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50004&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50004&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50004&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50004&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+50004&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php