From: Andi Gutmans <andi@php.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:10:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: - Fix up the NEWS item. We need to make sure that this release we really
X-Git-Tag: php-4.0.5RC1~1019
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=690812d165cb31d53888bd1167f3983a11e3f8ba;p=php

- Fix up the NEWS item. We need to make sure that this release we really
  do put a link to the NEWS file on the downloads page.
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1b7cb22785..9f45322e99 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,15 +5,18 @@ PHP 4.0                                                                    NEWS
 - Empty entry. Enjoy
 
 ?? ??? 2000, Version 4.0.4
-- Allow passing certain non-variables references by reference. You can do:
-  a) func(new myclass());
-  b) func(func2()); where func2() returns a reference, i.e. is defined as
+- Allow for three expression types to be sent to functions which are requesting
+  the function argument to be passed by reference (only c. was previously
+  supported):
+  a. func(new myclass());
+  b. func(func2()); where func2() returns a reference, i.e. is defined as
      function &func2(...)
      {
       ...
      }
-  c) func($var); where func() is defined as function func(&$var) {...}
+  c. func($var); where func() is defined as function func(&$var) {...}
   You CAN'T count on any other expressions to be passable by reference.
+  (Andi, Zend Engine)
 - Fixed bad mod_perl interaction which caused segfaults when using LFS (Sascha)
 - const CONSTNAME now gets recognized. Before the patch only @const CONSTNAME description was recognized.
 - Added extension for the cracklib library. (Alexander Feldman)