RE: [PHP4BETA] returning a reference from a function ?
| From: | Samuel Liddicott | Date: | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:36:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP4BETA] returning a reference from a function ? | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hholzgra@healey.highway.bertelsmann.de
> [mailto:hholzgra@healey.highway.bertelsmann.de]On Behalf Of Hartmut
> Holzgraefe
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 02:07 PM
> To: php4-beta
> Subject: [PHP4BETA] returning a reference from a function ?
>
> Is there any legal way to return something from a function
> by _reference_ instead of _by copy_ ?
>
> "retrun &$var;" and "$var = &function();" cause syntax errors
guessing here:
&$var=function();
> function byref(&$ref) { $ref = &$value; }
> does not behave as i would have expected in the first place
> ( see also http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php3?id=2589 )
In later versions default parameters must be constant anyway so this will
not be an issue.
Sam