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[Daniel Convissor]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:59:02AM -0500, csnyder wrote:
> 
> Out of curiousity, why are you assigning by reference ( =& ) when
> creating the new objects?

Doing so in PHP 4 saves on memory.  For example, in PEAR DB, the connect 
method creates and then returns an object.  As I understand it, in PHP 4, 
if references are not used, the object returned will be a whole new 
copy of the object created inside the method.  But if you assign by 
reference, you get the object created inside the method.

--Dan

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