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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Function proposal: varset
From: mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au (Ben Schmidt)

> yeah you are right, passing arguments by reference doesn't trigger the
> notice, but I'm not sure that it is applicable in our case.

Yeah, it wouldn't help. For instance, 42 or "default" can't be passed by
reference, so you couldn't actually provide a default value to
coalesce() if you implemented it like that, which would make it pretty
useless. :-)

Ben.