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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: allow_call_pass_by_reference
From: indeyets@gmail.com ("Alexey Zakhlestin")

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46 PM, LEW21 <lew21st@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sometimes call time pass by reference is useful, for example when you
> want to make it possible to omit an param (normally passed by
> reference) by setting null. With no call time pass by reference,
> programmers are required to write:
>
> $null = null;
> foo($null);

what stops you from declaring:

function someFunc(&$param = null)
{
}

it works just fine


> Deleting it isn't a good idea, it should become a normal (not
> deprecated) language feature.


-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/