Hello all,
I'm a PHP newbie, so please pardon me if this question has already been asked somewhere in this forum. I have been reading the PHP documentation. On this page http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.pass.php, I came across this code:
<?php
... snip ...
function &bar()
{
$a = 5;
return $a;
}
foo(bar());
?>
This is returning a reference to local variable $a. Coming from a C/C++ background, my intuition tells me this just shouldn't work, since the local variable $a should be deleted as soon as the function "bar" returns. The code seems to work, though. My guess is that PHP is basically ref-counting and garbage collecting local variables like $a, and so it will not be automatically cleaned up on call exit. Is this about right? Thanks!
WN
