[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: horde/lib Horde.php

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

| Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
|
| > chuck       2003/04/03 18:52:17 PST
| >
| >   Modified files:
| >     lib                  Horde.php
| >   Log:
| >   Can't assign references to static variables.
|
| Uh, why not? We do this all over the places without problems so far.

Chuck is correct.  This one bit me in the rear a few months ago when I was
writing a module with a singleton() method.  The $instances variable is
static, and i was doing a $instances = &new Foo;  Sure enough, the next
time singleton was called, the previous $instances was nowhere in sight and
a brand new class had to be instantiated.  It talks about this somewhere in
the PHP manual (I think it's fairly buried).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder