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Reply-To: Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net>
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To: Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: $ref =& $this;
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Christian,

  php 4 code is wrong in this and we don't want to support the errors
forever.

marcus

Monday, October 3, 2005, 3:39:00 PM, you wrote:

> 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




Best regards,
 Marcus