From:             charlie at charliesomerville dot com
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      master-Git-2012-09-14 (Git)
Package:          Scripting Engine problem
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:Passing a reference to a function does not work when 
parentheses are used

Description:
------------
To be specific, this only occurs when passing a reference returned by a
function 
into another function that takes a reference.

This behaves as expected with a variable instead of a function call, so I
believe 
this is a bug.

Test script:
---------------
<?php

function &return_a() {
    global $a;
    return $a;
}

$a = [1,2,3];
array_shift(return_a());
print_r($a);

$a = [1,2,3];
array_shift((return_a()));
print_r($a);

Expected result:
----------------
Array
(
    [0] => 2
    [1] => 3
)
Array
(
    [0] => 2
    [1] => 3
)

Actual result:
--------------
Array
(
    [0] => 2
    [1] => 3
)
Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
    [2] => 3
)

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register_globals:                    
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