I was trying to assign a defined property inside an overloaded class to point at a non-overloaded class or an array.

I get:
Fatal error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets nor overloaded objects 

I understand the limitation that I cannot store references to overloaded objects - but the error message does not say references are just not allowed inside of overloaded classes.

So is the error message just vague or is this a bug in the way references in overloaded classes work?


Here is code that shows the problem

<?
$list= array(1,2,3,4);
class testList {
    var $list;
    function testList(&$list) {
        $this->list = &$list;
    }
}
class Test {
    var $data;
    var $list;
    function Test (&$list) {
        $this->list = &$list;
    }
    function __set($name,$value) {
    }
}

// Declare the class as overloaded
overload ("Test");
$test=new Test(new testList($list));

print var_dump($test->list);
$list = array(1,2);
print var_dump($test->list);

$test=new Test($list);
print var_dump($test->list);
$list = array(1,2);
print var_dump($test->list);



?>