Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 11/09/35 11:19

* Michael Stepanov <michaelstepanov@francoudi.com>:
> Usually, I develop on Perl. But my current task pushes me to start use
> PHP. Generally, it's great but sometimes I'm a little bit confused.
> For example, recently I've found a strange notation of creation of PHP
> objects:
>
> $obj = & new SomeObject();
>
> Can anyone explain me meaning of *&*?

& is used to create references -- kind of like \ in perl.

The above notation is unnecessary when developing in PHP5, as objects in
PHP5 are passed by reference by default. However, in PHP4, this was
often necessary if you needed to, for instance, store an object in an
array or another object (otherwise you got a copy of the object, which
means state would then differ between the original and the copy).

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