note 54325 added to language.functions

@ gilthansNOSPAAM at gmailSPAAMBLOCK dot com Your first example works just fine. There is no reason that pass-by-reference arguments can't work with recursion. This is what I used: <?php $foo = 0; function bar(&$foo){ $foo++; echo $foo."\n"; if($foo < 10) bar($foo); } bar($foo); ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.functions.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+54325 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54325&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54325&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54325&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54325&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54325&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+54325&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+54325&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php