Re: [PHP4BETA] returning a reference from a function ?
| From: | Hartmut Holzgraefe | Date: | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:45:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] returning a reference from a function ? | ||
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Samuel Liddicott wrote:
> > 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:
> &$var=function();
>
yet another syntax error
>
> > function byref(&$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.
?????
this is not at all about default parameters