pass-by-reference and Built in functions

[Anon]

As pass-by-reference has been deprecated in 4.1, how can I then pass arguments by reference to built in functions?

Is it exactely the point that I cannot do that and that I hence have to write wrapper fundtions or create a bunch of new variables?

thanks in advance

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pass by reference depricated in 4.1?

Don't you meant that the old method of adding the & in the function call has been depricated in favour of having the & in the function definition? (which has been depricated for a long time)

[humtibum]

pass by reference depricated in 4.1?

Don't you meant that the old method of
adding the & in the function call has been
depricated in favour of having the & in the
function definition? (which has been
depricated for a long time

That is exactely what I mean. I used to be able to call built in functions either way --> octdec($a) or octdec(&$a). No I cannot as the reference thingy has to be declared in the function statement --> and I cannot do that for built in functions.

Then... Do I have to write wrapper functions for all built in functions I want to call by reference or do they want me to entirely stop calling by reference?

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"Do I have to write wrapper functions for all built in functions I want to call by reference or do they want me to entirely stop calling by reference?"

No wrapper functions, you should never have called those functions by reference in the first place really.

You will have to start using the functions 'properly'.

Depricated means that they plan to abolish it in some future release (and quite rightly so I might add, especially with octdec it makes NO sense at all to allow passing by reference)