Re: [PHP4BETA] A small question

I realize the $foo is not a pointer, just thought it might be worth a shot... :) I still have problems with my pointers in C, and thought it might be nice to learn if PHP did it, and how...that's how I got into this whole programming thing, ya know... I am using CVS from about 4am Mountain Standard Time, US, this morning. --Joey Smith On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrey Zmievski wrote: > Joey wrote: > > I was trying something out, and ran into something > > that seemed odd... > > > > I wanted to know what would happen if I: > > > > <? > > $a = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8); > > > > $foo = &$a[3]; > > > > $next = $foo++; > > > > echo $next . "\n"; > > ?> > > > > > > Hoping that maybe $a[4] would get into $next... > > No, $foo is not a pointer - it is a reference to $a[3] which means that both > $foo and $a[3] get the value of 5 after $foo++, and $next is 4. > > > Here's what I got: > > > > 4 > > -: Freeing 0x001A50E8 (39 bytes), allocated in zend_hash.c on line > > 175<br> > > -: Freeing 0x001A4E48 (4 bytes), allocated in zend_hash.c on line 391<br> > > -: Freeing 0x001A4DF0 (35 bytes), allocated in zend_hash.c on line > > 380<br> > > I'm not getting these leaks. Are you using 4.0 beta 2? > > -Andrey > * Only 19,999 lines of C++ to my next ski trip... * >