Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19548 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2999 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Oct 2005 12:21:37 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2983 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2005 12:21:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Oct 2005 12:21:37 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:44691] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id FE/89-54476-ECC5A434 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:21:35 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9ACLVre016074; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:21:31 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j9ACLRPT016066; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:21:28 +0200 Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:21:27 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Matthias Pigulla cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <00A2E2156BEE8446A81C8881AE117F192C15D3@companyweb> Message-ID: References: <00A2E2156BEE8446A81C8881AE117F192C15D3@companyweb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdi-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] return /* by reference */ new Foo() in PHP4 From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Matthias Pigulla wrote: > The point is that this requires really unlogic and silly workarounds > like 'return $tmp =& new Foo()'. That forces people to touch stable > codebases; I find it comprehensible that they feel this is like passing > the engine internal problems to the php coders. I discussed this with Dmitry today and we agree that although this is strange, we will not do any modifications here as PHP 4.4. is stable and we don't want to risk breaking things. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org