Re: [Fofredux-devel] reference passing

[Evan R. <eva...@gm...>]

well, in the end, it shouldn't really matter.  i was just worried about
something breaking in php5.

what are you using for logging / debugging.  i'd like to install something
on my side anyway.

/evan

On 5/12/06, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
>
> Evan Roth wrote:
> > Hey Kev (especially),
> >
> > I've been overwhelmed at work this week, so have had no time (but we
> > were featured on boingboing today with our car towers!).
> >
> > in any case, i've been browsing through all your updates.  is there a
> > reason that we are passing almost everything by reference?  i remember
> > reading somewhere that =3D& is deprecated in php5 and causes some sort
> > of undesired side effect...but not sure of the details.
>
> It's what I'm used to with php4.  To pass by reference on a return value
> you have to declare it on both sides of the function/method call.  I
> probably have gone overboard on using pass by reference.  I'm used to
> other languages that do it exclusively by default. (java & python)   In
> some cases I really want a reference passed around to keep the values
> inside the object consistent.  In other cases I do it to avoid the
> (potentially costly) copy of an object, or collection of objects.  I
> know, I know, that is premature optimization which is a no-no.
>
> I started using a logging function that gives very verbose output.  I
> can now see all the places I've used either incorrect or deprecated
> reference passing.  I'll try to clean it up.
>
> -Kevin
>