Re: [PHP-GENERAL] Can I use Functional Pointer? / Javascript bracelet conflict ?

Dirk Soede wrote:
> 
> > I don't think there will be pointers,
> > the language has so far been able to avoid them
> > (which is a good think for a scripting language, IMHO).
> 
> I would agree to avoiding pointers. But the problem is that PHP copies
> objects completely instead of the references to them. This is quite
> unpractical.

I agree!

So this is why I had to rewrite some of my scripts.
I always thought that "new" returns an object reference,
not the object as a value.  I expected more Perl-like behaviour.

Jan