Andi Gutmans writes:
> At 12:44 PM 3/29/2001 -0800, Lars Torben Wilson wrote:
>
> >Slightly different topic--is it a problem that call-time pass-by-ref
> >is being deprecated but several functions require it in order to work?
>
> It is possible. Functions which require their argument by reference should
> ask for it to be sent by reference and not expect the calling person to
> write foo(&$bar). The BY_REF_ALLOW is a remainder of PHP 3 and is obsolete
> with today's reference counting (I'm pretty sure about this but I just woke
> up so I might be saying BS :).
>
> Andi
OK, thanks. I keep getting bitten by functions which don't work
without calling them like foo(&$bar), but PHP complains about
that. 'Course I can always tell PHP to cope with it in php.ini, but
that seems more like ignoring the problem than fixing it. :)
Thanks for all the info,
Torben
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