Are you kidding me? The "solution" is to serialize and deserialize? That's a incredible waste. edit: I thought it was not uncommon for higher level language

Are you kidding me? The "solution" is to serialize and deserialize? That's a incredible waste. edit: I thought it was not uncommon for higher level languages to pass arrays and objects by reference, so this post wasn't particularly new or interesting. Unless you're coming from PHP, which is, IMO, a nightmare because everything is passed by value (by default) except objects.