What's the benefit of function refrence?
- by SpawnCxy
When I reading the code of CodeIgniter,I found some functions written as follows:
function &get_instance()
{
global $CI, $OBJ;
if (is_object($CI))
{
return $CI;
}
return $OBJ->load;
}
I can understand variable refrence,but I can hardly get this through.Is it necessary to use this function style?And any benefit?
Thanks.