[development] Call time pass-by-reference for PHP 5.4

[Earnie Boyd]

Ah, yes, yes, I was reading the notice incorrectly.  Thanks.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Blake Senftner
<bsenftner at earthlink.net> wrote:
> It's my understanding that as long as the reference is a variable or a function, the only difference is the removal of the '&' symbol when calling a function that receives the reference:
>
> logic that remains the same:
> function foo( &$some_var ) {  // receives reference
>   $some_var = 'some value';
> }
>
> allowed old calling syntax:
> $my_var = 'original value';
> foo( &$my_var );   // obvious it's being passed as a reference
>
> New syntax:
> $my_var = 'original value';
> foo( $my_var );   // still a reference, just no special syntax when calling
>
> I've been running Drupal 6 in php 5.4, and only had to make a few adjustments like the above to run the latest D6 version. (I get a number of other warnings from other php changes, but this one seems fixed by the above.)
>
> Sincerely,
> -Blake Senftner
>
> On Oct 26, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>> What is going to be the best way to handle the removal of call time
>> pass-by-reference as noted at
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php?
>>
>> This affects a lot of code.  Based on http://drupal.org/node/1498574
>> D8 will not be ready for PHP 5.4 but some WAMP and LAMP are already
>> delivering it.  My query here though is more looking at preparing for
>> any new modules or converting older modules and getting them ready for
>> PHP 5.4.  How do others plan to handle this offensive change?
>>
>> --
>> Earnie
>> -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd
>



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