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To: Daniel Convissor <danielc@analysisandsolutions.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] return NULL by reference
From: lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith)

Daniel Convissor wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:52:24AM -0600, Jeffrey Moss wrote:
> 
> 
>>        return NULL; 
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
>>"Only variable references should be returned by reference "
> 
> 
> Just like the error message says.  "References" are referring to 
> variables.  NULL isn't a variable.  Do this instead:
> 
>           $tmp = null;
>           return $tmp;

i thought that one was fixed?

regards,
Lukas