Posted by Vince Morgan on 05/07/07 11:06

"gosha bine" <stereofrog@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:463efba6$0$2889$6e1ede2f@read.cnntp.org...
> Vince Morgan wrote:

> >> Are you debugging with E_ALL? This actually should throw a notice
("only
> >> variables can be returned by ref" or similar).
> >
> > Yes Gosha. No warning or notice however.
> >
> > Vince
> >
> >
>
> Report a bug then. For reference, the followin throws a notice in php 5.2:
>
> function &foo($rc) {
> return mysql_fetch_array($rc);
> }
> $rc = mysql_query("SELECT 1");
> $a = foo($rc);
> // NOTICE: Only variable references should be returned by reference

I will report it as a bug Gosha.
The following doesn't report a warning or notice either, which is at least
consistent;
function &ret()
{
return 1+1;
}
$d=ret();
echo ret;
Output is 2.

Thanks,
Vince

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