It's supposed to work under the same circumstances as in Engine 1 (if you really returned a reference) although in most cases you will now be returning objects by value and assigning them by value. It was introduced originally to get around the object problems the Engine 2 solved. I'll look into it.
Andi At 06:12 PM 6/11/2002 +0800, John Lim wrote: >Hello, > >With the ZE 2, PHP 4.3.0-alpha > ><?php > : > : # some init code > : >$aclass =& afunction($params); >?> > >I get an error that looks like this: > >Fatal error: Can't use function return value in write context in >d:\inetpub\wwwroot\php\test5.php on line 29 > >Is this a bug or a feature of the new ZE2. I noticed there are many places >in PEAR and my code that use the =& syntax. > >Thanks again, John > > > >-- >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
