Posted by Darko on 11/06/07 20:02

On Nov 6, 8:27 pm, Csaba Gabor <dans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the following PHP code, the final printed line shows 'frob:
> something'. Why is it not 'frob: else'? After all, if I replace the
> first line with $frob = "something"; test ($frob); then the final
> printed line does show 'frob: else'
>
> Csaba Gabor from Vienna
> PHP 5.2.4 on WinXP Pro
>
> test ($frob = "something");
> print "frob: $frob <br>\n";
>
> function test(&$val) {
> print "val pre: $val <br>\n";
> $val = "else";
> print "val post: $val <br>\n"; }

Interesting, indeed. In C++, for an example, it must work as you
expected, and works indeed, since "something" is first assigned to
$frob, then it's passed over to the function, and it does whatever it
wants with it. Here, however, some double assignments seem to have
happened. Is it a bug, or is it some kind of php-specific behaviour,
other users might now.

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