Are PHP5 objects passed by reference?

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Published on 2010-04-26T16:17:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 16:23 UTC
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I cant seem to get any consistent info on this. Different sources appear to say different things and trhe venerable php.net iteslf (appears) not to explicitly state this - although I must admit, I only had a quick look.

In cases where I am passing around 'heavy' objects, I need to pass by reference, but I dont want to keep typing:

function foo(TypeName& $obj)

if I can get away with simply,

function foo(TypeName $obj)

So what does the standard say?

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