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| Message-ID | <1661536.sHWYdyDnFx@PointedEars.de> (permalink) |
|---|---|
| From | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> |
| Organization | PointedEars Software (PES) |
| Date | 2011-07-17 11:10 +0200 |
| Subject | Re: error message I don understand |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php |
| References | <4e2050e3$0$48996$dbd4f001@news.wanadoo.nl> <4e21e658$0$19265$a8266bb1@newsreader.readnews.com> <4e229b87$0$39844$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl> |
| Followup-To | comp.lang.php |
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liebling.kreuzberg@gmail.com wrote:
> Denis McMahon wrote:
>> Consider:
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> function x()
>> {
>> return 5;
>> }
>>
>> x() = 1;
>>
>> ?>
>>
>> although x() gives the value 5, it is not a variable that can be set, and
>> so you can not assign (or write) a value (such as 1) to it.
>>
>> The php error message is saying that you can't assign (or write) a value
>> to a function call, or in other words, the return value of a function
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> call is read_only data.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Thanks Dennis.
>
> Good addition to the explanation of Billy.
In the end an oversimplified, wrong explanation. It is a syntactical
requirement, not a functional one:
function x()
{
return array(23);
}
$a = x();
$a[0] = 42;
/*
* Array
* (
* [0] => 42
* )
*/
print_r($a);
You would be well-advised to post under your real name, as it is customary
in Usenet.
PointedEars
--
Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
-- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> (2004)
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Re: error message I don understand Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-18 17:55 +0200
Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 20:31 +0200
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