Description:
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Currently, PHP has "==", which loosely checks for equality, and "===", which 
strictly checks for equality.  However, for strings and booleans and such, both 
only test for equality -- there's no way to know (without altering the variable's 
contents) whether two variables are identical references unless they refer to an 
object.

If PHP allows the creation of references, there should be some safe and built-in 
way of testing whether that's been done, so values don't get unexpectedly mangled.

Test script:
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$a = 'test';
$b = "$a";  // Interpolated, so it should not be pooled or anything if PHP does that
$c =& $a;   

// These all print
if ($a == $b) print "\$a == \$b\n";
if ($b == $c) print "\$b == \$c\n";
if ($a == $c) print "\$a == \$c\n";

// These all print too, as expected
if ($a === $b) print "\$a === \$b\n";
if ($b === $c) print "\$b === \$c\n";
if ($a === $c) print "\$a === \$c\n";

// I use "is" here, because other languages use it
// if they don't already use /==+/ for this purpose.
if ($a is $b) print "\$a is \$b\n"; // should not print
if ($b is $c) print "\$b is \$c\n"; // should not print
if ($a is $c) print "\$a is \$c\n"; // should run

Expected result:
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$a == $b
$b == $c
$a == $c
$a === $b
$b === $c
$a === $c
$a is $c

Actual result:
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Parse error.  (There is no "is" operator yet, and no reasonable replacement.)