hi,
I just found this behavior when trying to implement a linked list with php.
In linked list it's common to say:
$a =& $a->next;
when traversing the list. but this doesn't work (it gives segmentation fault when
trying to access the $head->next object (after the above assignment).
but this work:
$tmp =& $a;
$a =& $tmp->next;
I don't know if this can be considered a bug or if it's designed to work that way. But
I think it would be nice to be able to do it without creating temporary variable.
here is the full code. I'm using php 4.2.2 and I'm running the code from comand line.
(if I execute it from the web it gives something like 'document contains no data'
instead of segmentation fault)
<?php
class test {
var $name, $next;
function test($n = '') {
$this->name = $n;
$this->next = null;
}
function toString() {
return $this->name;
}
}
$a = new test('a');
$a->next = new test('b');
$a->next->next = new test('c');
echo 'a '. $a->toString() ."\n";
echo 'a next '. $a->next->toString() ."\n";
echo 'a next next '. $a->next->next->toString() ."\n";
$tmp =& $a; $a =& $tmp->next; // this is fine
//$a =& $a->next; // this will result in Segmentation fault
echo 'a '. $a->toString() ."\n";
echo 'a next '. $a->next->toString() ."\n";
?>
I would be glad to hear other people's opinion on this.
thanks,
- reynard
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