On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 10:02, Jason Barnett wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > ... > > > > > > There's a difference between a reference to a reference and a copy of a > > reference *hehehe*. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > Dear diary: jackpot! > > Now that makes sense. And am I correctly filling in the blanks when I > guess that $foo3 = $aObj is merely copying the reference instead of > referencing the reference? I probably could have written that more > clearly, but I think you get what I'm saying. Yeah, *grin*. And on that note, there are times when you will actually want $foo = &new SomeClass(); versus $foo = new SomeClass(); since assigning by reference will break any previous references -- something I forgot to mention to Matthew Weier when he challenged the relevance of the snippet I sent. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php