Re: [PHP4BETA] new/fast API breaks passing array elements by value!

> That means we have to update all functions which change their > original input parameters, because they rely on getting a > copy which isn't true anymore. > > This is probably mostly true for string.c which contains/uses > functions which edit their passed parameters. For something like strtoupper(), it might be nice if you don't make a copy if it is called using strtoupper(&$arg) and do make a copy if it is called using strtoupper($arg) I don't think it would be a backward compatibility problem since anybody writing strtoupper(&$arg) was probably expecting it to work that way, but since it didn't like ended up doing: $arg = strtoupper(&$arg) and this would still work fine and thus his code wouldn't break. -Rasmus