ID: 24687
Comment by: mag at alcormizar dot cjb dot net
Reported By: nologic at pchome dot com dot tw
Status: Open
Bug Type: Zend Engine 2 problem
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 5CVS
New Comment:
I agree with Zeev on this one, this shouldn't be fixed. People will
need to learn to write good code one day or the other, and returning a
reference like that is VERY bad practice (try to do that in C++!). Even
returning a reference to a local variable like this example should
produce an error :
class foo
{
function &bar()
{
$whatever = 5;
return $whatever;
}
}
because $whatever should not exist anymore after function bar return
(according to correct scope rules), thus this reference is not
referencing anything anymore... Instead of always asking to fix bad
programming practice people should learn the correct way to do it. This
is my opinion.
Previous Comments:
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[2003-11-13 14:28:05] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reopening, as this is something that definitely can not pass. And Zeev
mentioned that it's possible to fix.
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[2003-11-13 13:49:47] suren at qualys dot com
There is no way this is a wontfix. Returning a function call is a
common practice and a valid code. Please fix this bug as it breaks most
of OOP based PHP scripts and there is no way people will migrate to
php5 if it does not work.
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[2003-11-13 13:16:19] waboring at 3gstech dot com
Fix your scripts? They weren't broken. php5 broke them. This is a
very common thing to be able to do a
return function_call_here()
I'm ashamed at the comments against fixing this. Basically being..this
is too hard, so you change instead. This is going to break a LOT of
people's code and will prevent me from moving to php5. Please fix
this.
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[2003-10-14 07:51:34] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix your scripts.
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[2003-08-16 04:14:19] jan at horde dot org
Any idea yet if this will be fixed/addressed or should we start
converting scripts to not use referenced return type or build variables
that get returned?
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