From: ile at dennisgiese dot de
Operating system: Win XP Sp3
PHP version: 5.3.0
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Call-time pass-by-reference deprecated -> undeprecate
Description:
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Please undreprecate Call-Time pass-by-reference, since it is a fully
supported and used way of programming style in almost EVERY serious and
"big" language!
Reproduce code:
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If you have any kind of class or stack of functions you surely want to
keep lines of code as short as possible. on the other hand you surely don't
want to "copy" your variables just to call a function...
example:
building an XML document, while using a (sub)function in order to create
only sligthly different paths:
private function _prepareRequest()
{
//[some other code]
$this->_StoreInterval("from",&$xmlwriter,$this->startdate);
$this->_StoreInterval("to",&$xmlwriter,$this->enddate);
//[some other code]
}
private function _StoreInterval($kind,&$xmlwriter,$date)
{
$xmlwriter->startElement($kind);
$xmlwriter->writeElement("day",date("d",$date));
$xmlwriter->writeElement("month",date("m",$date));
$xmlwriter->writeElement("year",date("Y",$date));
$xmlwriter->writeElement("hour",date("H",$date));
$xmlwriter->endElement();
}
Expected result:
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in 5.3.0 this still works, but got an warning because this is
"deprecated"...
Actual result:
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actually this should be working anyway, since i don't want to waste memory
just to copy and paste back results from this subfunction.
if this won't work it makes - to some extend - building functions useles.
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49249&edit=1
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Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2):
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Fixed in SVN:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:
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Need Reproduce Script:
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Try newer version:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=support
Expected behavior:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=php4
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=dst
IIS Stability:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=float
No Zend Extensions:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49249&r=mysqlcfg
