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Subject: indirect references to static function variables
From: jan@prima.de (Jan Lehnardt)

Hi again,
the ZEND_CHANGES file states:
[...]
  * Static function variables.

  Statics are now treated at compile-time which allows developers
  to assign variables to statics by reference. This change also
  greatly improves their performance but means that indirect
  references to statics will not work anymore.
[..]

The only thing close to "indirect references" I could come up
with, was this:
<?php
function foo()
{
   static $a = 0;
   $a_name = "a";

   echo $$a_name;
   echo $a;
   $a++;
}

foo();
foo();
?>

Which works as expected in both PHP 4 and 5.

So what exactly doesn't work anymore? Or what is meant by
"indirect references"?

Best regards,
Jan
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