If I didn't know you're not working for Zend, I'd suspect that was a
prepared-question :)
http://www.zend.com/engine2/ZendEngine-2.0.pdf
At 11:26 29-08-01, Geoff Caplan wrote:
>Hi folks
>
>While we are on the subject of strategic issues for PHP, a quick question on
>the OOP functionality.
>
>As many on this list will know, there is a peculiarity with the PHP object
>model - in many situations it creates a copy of an instance when you would
>expect a reference. This means that you have to constantly remember to
>create references with &, adding an extra source of hard-to-find bugs.
>
>Are there any plans to sort this out? It rather disfigures the language.
>
>Yes, I know PHP was conceived as a functional language, but a high
>percentage of the more sophisticated applications make use of its object
>functionality - you just have to look at the script download sites to see
>that this is true. Both Perl and C/C++ are examples of successful hybrid
>languages. With just a little extra work, PHP could join this list...
>
>Geoff Caplan
>
>
>
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