I guess you're gonna hate this :) So what you're saying is that it is *consistent* with regard to the implementation of methods/functions, i.e. __get behaves as an ordinary method.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <s...@zend.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> So, what's the reasoning behind this design decision? Why is it supposed >> to work like this and not the other way around? > > Because when you return something by-value you can not have effects of its > modification reflect on the original value. That's how by-value works. When > you have by-ref return you can modify it and have the original value change. > More here: http://php.net/references > -- > Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect > s...@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ > (408)253-8829 MSN: s...@zend.com > -- Ionut G. Stan I'm under construction | http://blog.igstan.ro/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
