Hello Derick,
Monday, October 3, 2005, 3:09:22 PM, you wrote:
> Hello,
> Dmitry committed a fix earlier to ignore the & in the statement above. I
> think this is not a good thing to do as it's simply conceptually wrong.
> The first thing is that ignoring syntax without issuing a warning is
> dubious because people might think it does actually work, and secondly
> because I think that the code above is wrong anyway - somewhat in the
> same way that "$this = new foo();" is wrong.
> There is never any need to assign $this by reference, nor to pass it by
> reference to a function as it's an object anyway, making the references
> pointless - I would even go as far as disallowing passing $this by
> references to a function - where the reference has to be ignored again,
> otherwise it allows you to chantge $this to a different object with:
> class Foo {
> function byRef(&$f) {
> $f = new Bar();
> }
> function modifyThis() {
> $this->byRef($this);
> }
> }
> I think we should prevent people from writing syntax like this, as it is
> not obvious what is going to happen. This means that we should revert
> Dmitry's patch.
Same here.
Best regards,
Marcus
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