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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] foreach, assigning to a reference, and E_NOTICE
From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon")

>> Can we throw an E_NOTICE when foreach targets a reference? (The other
> there's many way to use reference, not only in foreach. don't do
> reference unless u know it's really needed.
>
Sean's not so much referring to his own problem as (like you said) the 
solution is a fairly simple matter of following strict coding practices. 
He's trying to address the problem of unexperienced developers seeing this 
behavior and (wrongly) reporting it as a bug, or worse, assuming PHP is just 
"broken" and therefore shouldn't be used.

That said, I'm not convinved this needs a notice, but I'm certainly not 
against it.  Perhaps we should split the difference with an E_STRICT.

-Sara