On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 23:03, Daniel Convissor <dani...@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote: > Hi Derick: > > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:12:25PM +0100, Derick Rethans wrote: >> >> There is still a difference in userland between: >> >> function tralala ( $foo ); >> >> and >> >> function tralala ( &$foo ); >> >> with $foo being fed an object. Objects are passed by a handle, so it >> looks like a reference. > > Yep. Though this documentation isn't covering userland. > > >> AFAIK the refence bit is not used there in the XML. > > It is used, turning the output from $var to &$var. > > So would you and the doc team rather I explain in the parameters section > that the $object parameter gets modified by the operation? Is there a > particular term for this?
None of our docs mention this (see intl and mysqli for example). It is clearly expected behavior and is documented in the oo chapters. -Hannes