Posted by Summercool on 09/27/07 16:12

On Sep 27, 8:43 am, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The manual is incorrect at this point. Object variables in php5 are
> assigned by value, just like in php4, but this very value is different
> in php5 - it's a pointer to the object, not the object itself. But this
> is essentially another story and has nothing to do with references.
>
> --
> gosha bine

i think pointer and reference are the same thing, like in Java and
Ruby.
In PHP, what the manual calls "reference" is actually not a reference
in other languages... it is like an alias or (a nickname).

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