[TYPO3-ect] Registry-Pattern for lib/div?

[Christian Welzel]

Joerg Schoppet wrote:

> When I look into the sources of lib I see a lot of object-references
> (-copies). I mean, the controller creates the different objects
> (context, parameter, configuration) and "copies" itself to all of these.

This is a problem of PHP4 which does per default always copy objects on
assignments. The solution would be either to drop PHP4 support, and get
rid of the copying with PHP5 (which assigns objects always per reference)
or to mark all necessary places with a reference operator
[ function controller(&$controller) { $this->controller = &$controller; } ].

I believe introducing a new concept like a registry doesn't make lib/div
easier to the average extension developer.

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