Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/15/05 02:58

Rich Kucera wrote:
> Holding all versions at 5.0.4, Multiple stacks with multiple-version
> configurations inevitable
>
> Will have to wait to see what the impact of problems such as
> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33643 to the application world. We may
> wait for a suitable popular resolution and jump to that version in the
> future. There's already a rift between PHP4 and PHP5, and then further
> developments such as these create another, splitting the camp into 4.
> The fix to the language nit affects both php4 and php5 going forward,
> that is it breaks a lot of existing applications. I have had apps break
> due to it.
>
> There is also a discontinuity between MySQL 4 and MySQL 5. Apparently
> the upgrade is so bad that XAMPP is not releasing an upgrade patch for
> it's next versions. They require you to migrate the data manually.
> Future versions of XAMPP stack are in doubt, or will at least be much
> more of an effort now.
>
> We can fix up our own code to run on certain stacks or versions of PHP
> and MySQL, but we can't fix up all the 3rd party software that is out
> there. Given the rate of brokenness between versions of the same thing
> let alone configurations of things, multiple stacks are inevitable. Is
> this cost-effective?
>
> Or am I making a mountain out of a molehill?
>
> Best regards,
> -Rich
>
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>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/heuristic/
>

FWIW, I agree with the conclusion. Temporaries should not be passed as
references, either to a function or as a return value.

It won't affect my code at all, since I never did it in the first place.


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