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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 method return reference error?
From: waboring@3gstech.com (walt boring)

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Analysis & Solutions wrote:

>Hi Walter:
>
>On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:13:10PM -0800, Walter A. Boring IV wrote:
>  
>
>>"Fatal error: Only variables or references can be returned by reference
>>in /home/waboring/devel/html/test.php on line 11"
>>    
>>
>
>This is the expected behavior.
>
>This has been discussed in the bugs database and on this list.  I even 
>started a thread on this topic today.
>
>This group is archived in the following two places:
>   http://groups.google.com/groups?group=mailing.www.php-dev
>   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev
>
>The topic is discussed in bug 24687:
>   http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24687
>
>Enjoy,
>
>--Dan
>
>  
>
This is very sad that the only real argument in the bug against fixing 
it was
that it was hard.  Come on!  This is such a fundamental thing to be able 
to do.

function &foo() {
  return something_else();
}

How can they say this won't be fixed?  I just don't get it.  This is 
going to make a lot
of php folks upset, and make it much more painfull to upgrade to php5.  
I work on several projects,
commercial and non-commercial, that this one bug will prevent me from 
moving to php5 without
a lot of changing of classes and code, let alone the re-qualification of 
the applications due to this change.
This is just sad.

Walt

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