Posted by Lars Eighner on 09/28/07 06:59

In our last episode, <1190961700.418756.41530@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
the lovely and talented Summercool broadcast on comp.lang.php:

> so many places, including the book PHP in a Nutshell, p. 80, it says:

> $a =& $b # set $a to reference $b

> if $a reference $b, then while you can say $b =1, you can't really
> say $a = 1. you need to say *($a) = 1 as in C or C++. Referencing
> must be coupled with dereferencing, and PHP is not doing the
> dereferencing, so why is it call referencing in the first place?
> (don't tell me PHP automatically dereference... as it will be really
> weird).

> and i think in the PHP group, people say "reference" to mean "alias".

That is exactly what the manual says in Chapter 21. References Explained.
Instead of guessing, why not RTFM?


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