My question is for coding "etiquette" for scripting vs that of code that will
be compiled (C for example). Here, I am showing off that I am not a CS major
so I don't know the "science" of all this.
Basically, should things generally be passed by reference in scripting?
Example with some PHP I am working on that has no relation to trying to get
articles working for MUG:
$categories = get_article_categories();
foreach( $categories as $category )
{
$name = $category['name'];
$id = $category['id'];
// do stuff
}
Now, I did C a long time ago and I learned if you really wanted to confuse
people and eliminate lines of code, I could do something like:
foreach( get_article_categories() as $category )
{
$name = $category['name'];
$id = $category['id'];
// do stuff
}
Note that I have not tried this in PHP to even know if it will work. In C,
you compile, get 1's and 0's and never know where it came from. But PHP is
scripting. So it is a good thing to try to code like my example above
(assuming it would work) to confuse people, or is doing the reference thing a
better idea for security, etc?
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Jacob Albretsen
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