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Bug #64245 concatenating reference & string is confusing
Submitted: 2013-02-19 17:00 UTC Modified: 2013-02-19 17:14 UTC
From: fool at example dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Variables related
PHP Version: 5.4.11 OS: archlinux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2013-02-19 17:00 UTC] fool at example dot com 
Description:
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$ php -a
Interactive shell

php > $a = 'ab';
php > $b = 'cc'.&$a;
PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '&' in php shell code on line 1

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in php shell code on line 1

php > $b = &$a.'cc'; // no error
php > echo $b; // and 'cc' is ignored
abphp >

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