XML/RSS Weirdness

From:	Yavor Shahpasov	Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:47:15 +0000
Subject:	XML/RSS Weirdness
Groups:	php.pear.dev
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Hello, am using XML/RSS in the following manner

       $rss = new XML_RSS($channel);
       $rss->parse();
       $feeds = $rss->getItems();

at this stage $fedds is an empty array, while the rss file is a valid url

       $rss =& new XML_RSS($channel);
       $rss->parse();
       $feeds = $rss->getItems();

doing the above seems to work, can anyone explain why (martin?), I don't have a problem with using it like this but I really hate coding by coincedence so I would like to know, the source has not reveal anything for me, maybe am not a jedi yet Yavor