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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference Notice
From: matthew@teh.ath.cx (Matthew Charles Kavanagh)

It's a notice. Your soul won't curdle and fall out of your ears just
because your code produces a notice which you can easily prevent from
being output.

Robert Cummings wrote:

>I think the reference notice stuff is a bit ridiculous. I mean I can
>understand the concern behind:
>
>    function &foo()
>    {
>        return $fee.$fii;
>    }
>
>But I mean the following gives errors too which is a bit too anal
>retentive even for my liking:
>
>    function &foo()
>    {
>        $fee = 'bullshitBullshitBullshit';
>    
>        return $fee;
>    }
> 
>    function &fee()
>    {
>        return foo();
>    }
> 
>    fee();
>
>Anyways my two cents. Seems moronic that I now need to worry about
>stupid reference notices X levels deep in the code for functions that
>I'm consuming. I gueeeeeeeeeeeeess I can assign return values EVERYWHERE
>to temporary variables just to get rid of the notices, but really,
>shouldn't the engine be happy enough returning references to it's own
>intermediate variable? I mean, heck, the engine knows enough to print a
>warning, it can do the work-- and a hell of a lot faster than developers
>having to temporarily assign everything.
>
>Cheers,
>Rob.
>  
>