note 50005 added to language.oop.newref

Your examples fail to outline to me why copies are better than references, just in this example it points out to me how bizarre coding processes can shoot you int he foot... You found one small problem with using references, and found some example to exploit this problem so it would be an issue.. I personally don't use globals for anything other than logging errors in modules.. I might also use them for parameters.. But when I have a global to hang other objects off on, I just do global_object->add($my_object); and in the global object I have function add(& $object) { $this->array[$this->counter] = &$object; } This global object is the implementation of a programming construct called a monitor.. Its better than a global because globals have no usage history, and you can embed in the call logging information to track access in case you need to debug some temporal access problems.. So really you just introduced a decision to deprecate something based on your poor programming habits.. Or is there a reason for it? ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.newref.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+50005 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50005&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50005&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50005&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50005&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+50005&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+50005&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php