Posted by Oli Filth on 10/07/56 11:18

John T said the following on 10/06/2005 21:52:
>
>>It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have a reference to nothing.
>
> It's not the nothing that it's objecting to, it is not legal to have any
> default value for a parameter passed by reference.
>

Yes, by definition passing a reference means that you're passing a
pointer to an existing variable. If that variable doesn't exist, there
is nothing to set to NULL if you do something like:

function funQueryDatabase($strQuery, &$intInsertId = NULL)

So by definition this doesn't make sense.

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Oli

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