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To: internals@lists.php.net,Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: $ref =& $this;
From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider)

Derick Rethans wrote:
> pointless - I would even go as far as disallowing passing $this by 
> references to a function - where the reference has to be ignored again, 

This would be needed to have something like

function setfoo(&$obj)
{
	$obj->foo = 42;
}

[...]
$other->setfoo($this);

in a way which also works for PHP4.

a) I know that you now are going to bash me for mentioning PHP4
b) No, I don't think this is very common or elegant

But disallowing it might break existing code, no?

- Chris