Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:37776 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 76216 invoked from network); 21 May 2008 13:40:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 May 2008 13:40:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=steph@zend.com; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=steph@zend.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Received-SPF: softfail (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com does not designate 64.97.136.157 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: steph@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.97.136.157 smtpout0157.sc1.he.tucows.com Solaris 8 (1) Received: from [64.97.136.157] ([64.97.136.157:29352] helo=n064.sc1.he.tucows.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7A/B7-33305-B4624384 for ; Wed, 21 May 2008 09:40:28 -0400 Received: from sc1-out08.emaildefenseservice.com (64.97.139.2) by n064.sc1.he.tucows.com (7.2.069.1) id 4769770501515687; Wed, 21 May 2008 13:40:14 +0000 X-SpamScore: 2 X-Spamcatcher-Summary: 2,0,0,945e346a9b214fb4,2659b82809ca53c9,steph@zend.com,-,RULES_HIT:355:379:539:540:541:542:543:567:599:601:988:989:1155:1156:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1538:1587:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2073:2075:2078:2393:2559:2562:2828:3027:3352:3865:3866:3867:3868:3869:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:4250:5007:6119:6261:7875:7903,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:none,DNSBL:none,TSO:0 X-Spamcatcher-Explanation: Received: from foxbox (host86-137-246-48.range86-137.btcentralplus.com [86.137.246.48]) (Authenticated sender: steph.fox) by sc1-out08.emaildefenseservice.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 May 2008 13:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <016001c8bb48$5d387680$4401a8c0@foxbox> Reply-To: "Steph Fox" To: "Olivier Hill" Cc: "internals" References: <012701c8bb44$68f8b880$4401a8c0@foxbox> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 14:41:23 +0100 Organization: Zend Technologies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: allow_call_pass_by_reference From: steph@zend.com ("Steph Fox") For anyone else who doesn't read to the end... > Anyway, my opinion is clear on that one: shoot that dead cow. It's > been deprecated for years, and you should declare your function > prototypes with the param by ref anyway if you need it. All I'm asking is that we throw a warning by default in 5_3, because in PHP 6 there isn't even an option to switch that warning off. To be frank this shouldn't ever have needed to go to an RFC; the lack of warning is an obvious bug in PHP which should simply be fixed. - Steph