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Cc: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, internals@lists.php.net
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 03:36:00 +0900
To: Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] reference issue
From: moriyoshi@at.wakwak.com (Moriyoshi Koizumi)


On 2005/03/17, at 21:52, Lukas Smith wrote:

> Derick Rethans wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:
>>> That's expected behaviour. Have a look at http://bugs.php.net/20993 .
>> Sorry, but this is not expected - it's a bug.
>
> I would also like to disagree. I think this is a huge inconsistency 
> that should be addressed even if that costs performance.

I agree that it's not intuitive at all, though this issue was discussed
ending up with the following words.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=104018832405963&w=2

> If however the core php developers do think this behavior should 
> stick, then there should be a function that allows people to clean 
> these references without such hacks (even if internally these hacks 
> are still going on).

I think it's possible to add such a function to the 5.x branches.

Moriyoshi