note 50004 rejected from language.oop.newref by nlopess

Note Submitter: riseofthethorax at earthlink dot net ---- 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..