Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: convert_to_string_ex is not the solution.

> > i know a few people - including myself - who add a '&' here and there in > my scripts to speed things up. and yes, i've got bitten by funtions that > changed variable-types around without me expecting them to do so. > > If you _DO_ decide to change this behavior, it should definitely go into the incompat list. I have actually used this as an undocumented feature... by calling strlen() on something passed by ref., I programmed some thing to then expect a str. I agree, it should _NOT_ have been happening, but bcz it did, I programmed around it...perhaps others did also...