RE: [PEAR-DEV] db abstraction: pass by reference versus return

> IMO, inconsistency comes when you don't know what the method you call will > return. It has always been weird for me to think that a DB result object > could end up being a BD error object. I think 1) is more intuitive because > we know what the result will be and also because it is a lighter solution > when there are no errors. > > So +1 for 1) > would you also say that methods that handel conversion should be handled this way? For example: $query = 'SELECT * from foo WHERE bar = '.getTextValue($bar); would then not work and instead something like this: getTextValue($bar, $bar_quoted); $query = 'SELECT * from foo WHERE bar = '.$bar_quoted; would be needed. Best regards, Lukas