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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:11:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] big reference bug in (at least) PHP 5.0.5
From: r.korving@xit.nl ("Ron Korving")

Good point. I think it's somehow undesired behavior, but what can one do to
change this? I guess it somehow is desired behavior...

My bad I guess,

Ron

"Matthew Charles Kavanagh" <matthew@teh.ath.cx> schreef in bericht
news:432AC30D.1050105@teh.ath.cx...
> Ron Korving wrote:
>
> >The last item in the array is replaced, not by the first one of the
second
> >foreach, but by the item before the last item. That just doesn't make
sense
> >at all.
> >
> >
> This is where you're going wrong (and where I was going wrong in
> thinking about this before Antony's message). $item points to $array[2]
> the whole time, and $array[2] is first overwritten by $array[0], then
> $array[1], then $array[2].
>
> This is a pretty interesting oddity in references that I hadn't
> considered, though, and I'll be thinking about bizarre things I can do
> with this for a while. :)