Hi Andrea,

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote:

> > I think we can get rid of this error now when literal is returned.
> > The reason we have E_STRICT error is that legacy PHP didn't
> > support this, I suppose.
> >
> > http://3v4l.org/8fISj
>
> Hmm, I think there’s some logic to having a warning anyway. If a parameter
> is taken by reference, then it’s presumably going to be modified. So if you
> pass something that isn’t a variable (and therefore the modified result
> can’t be accessed) to a by-reference parameter, it doesn’t really make
> sense.


I agree. It might be a bug in user code simply. However, example code
illustrates that there is valid usage.
Static method may return literal, default for some config, etc.

http://3v4l.org/jKXpb

We may use @ or get rid of E_STRICT altogether. I wonder if we really need
E_STRICT error here.

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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net

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