From: bharat at menalto dot com Operating system: FreeBSD 4.8 PHP version: 4.3.8 PHP Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Bug description: variable assign by reference works even when methods don't return by reference
Description: ------------ According to the documentation here: http://us4.php.net/manual/en/language.references.return.php In order to assign a variable as a reference to a value returned by a class method, the method needs to also return by reference. However, on PHP 4.3.8 in my test script I've found that the semantics are the same whether or not you return by reference. This is surprising to me. I could have sworn that it didn't used to be this way. Please let me know if you need more information. I can reproduce this with a stock php.ini. If this is the desired behaviour in this case, then we should update the documentation to reflect that the ampersand is no longer necessary on the getter method. Reproduce code: --------------- http://www.menalto.com/.outgoing/php/ref.php Expected result: ---------------- The URL above indicates the expected results. I can elaborate if necessary. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=29877&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=29877&r=float
