On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 01:08, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 00:58, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > >>And for PHP5 you can just drop all references related to objects and it > >>will do the right thing. > > > > > > Eeeek, that's not entirely true. Sometimes you want a real reference to > > an object even in PHP5 :/ > > $a = new foo(); > > Will create a reference to the object. > > $b = $a; > > Now you have 2 references to the same object. > > For any sort of normal use, you never need to explicitly create > references to objects in PHP 5.
I think you mean novice use. There are certainly times when assigning an object to a variable I want all the values currently referring to that object to see the update and not just the variable being assigned to. I understand that objects in PHP5 are passed by reference under normal assignment, but it's a copy of a reference and not a reference to a reference. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
