please comment closing of bug#35995

hi!

before reporting a similar bug again, i would like to discuss what
other users / developers think about this bug:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35995

function(&$test){...}
test($test = 0);

this is an extreme helpful syntax, but the above code worked in all
versions of php4 and php5 except php5.1.2. the developers say, this is
not a bug in php5.1.2, because it should have never worked in older
version, too.

ok, i understand: $test = 0 is an expression, that cannot be passed by
reference.

but why not interprete it as follows:
1. assign $test to 0
2. pass $test by reference too function test
it only depends order of execution.

i think: this bug should not be closed, but fixed, because it breaks
BC! we use this syntax widly in our company. i would change it, but
finding the locations in the source code is extreme difficult, because
you cannot find all occurences by regex.

if you understand the semantics of the above syntax the way i described
above, it is very useful!

what do you think?

thanks,
- rainer