[studs-user] PHP Reference Variables and Functions Results by reference

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Dan,

1) With php-4.4 I'm finding that ``$bar =& foo()'' is returning the 
"Only variables may be assigned by reference" exception when foo() is 
return by reference; i.e. ``function &foo()''.  2) I also find that 
within the function declared as return by reference that you cannot 
return the results of any function, you must first set a variable 
reference and then return the variable.

As you can imagine this causes issues for studs as it is written.  I'm 
beginning to think I need to give up on PHP and look at Ruby on Rails 
or Python.  I'm pushing forward with trying to get the basic example up 
but this isn't looking very promising.

For 1) I have begun using $bar =& ref(foo());
For 2) I use $return =& baz(); return $return;

Earnie Boyd

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