From: femrat at gmail dot com Operating system: archlinux PHP version: 5.4.11 Package: Variables related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:concatenating reference & string is confusing
Description: ------------ $ php -a Interactive shell php > $a = 'ab'; php > $b = 'cc'.&$a; PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in php shell code on line 1 Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in php shell code on line 1 php > $b = &$a.'cc'; // no error php > echo $b; // and 'cc' is ignored abphp > -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64245&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64245&r=mysqlcfg
