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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:45:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ArrayAccess::offsetGet not returning a ref
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 10:17 +0200, Etienne Kneuss wrote:
> it looks like the fact that ArrayAccess::offsetGet is not returning a
> reference is a recurrent problem, I see basically 4 options:

The main use case is some nested structure like

$o = new ArrayObject();
/*...*/
$o[23][42] = "foobar";

right?

> a) Ignore the issue, change nothing
> 
> b) Rewrite offsetGet to return a ref, breaking BC
> 
> c) Create a new ArrayAccess interface where it does return a ref
> 
> d) Relax prototype checks so that both are allowed.

If the above case is correct and due to me not liking references I
wonder whether there is a way to for an option e) which adds support for
this in some way to the engine.

johannes