From e22b981706da28919b43d9dcc5ef0ebe9668dac9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 18:21:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid 'Only variables should be assigned by reference'
 warning. Props wonderboymusic. see #21865

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@22114 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/comment-template.php | 2 +-
 wp-includes/link-template.php    | 2 +-
 wp-includes/post.php             | 2 +-
 wp-includes/taxonomy.php         | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/comment-template.php b/wp-includes/comment-template.php
index 00ce175367..dc7ad40015 100644
--- a/wp-includes/comment-template.php
+++ b/wp-includes/comment-template.php
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ function comments_template( $file = '/comments.php', $separate_comments = false
 	update_comment_cache($wp_query->comments);
 
 	if ( $separate_comments ) {
-		$wp_query->comments_by_type = &separate_comments($comments);
+		$wp_query->comments_by_type = separate_comments($comments);
 		$comments_by_type = &$wp_query->comments_by_type;
 	}
 
diff --git a/wp-includes/link-template.php b/wp-includes/link-template.php
index 43468ea067..5bfb1b164e 100644
--- a/wp-includes/link-template.php
+++ b/wp-includes/link-template.php
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ function get_delete_post_link( $id = 0, $deprecated = '', $force_delete = false
  * @return string
  */
 function get_edit_comment_link( $comment_id = 0 ) {
-	$comment = &get_comment( $comment_id );
+	$comment = get_comment( $comment_id );
 
 	if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_comment', $comment->comment_ID ) )
 		return;
diff --git a/wp-includes/post.php b/wp-includes/post.php
index 376132ea08..8f08b0d3d5 100644
--- a/wp-includes/post.php
+++ b/wp-includes/post.php
@@ -3653,7 +3653,7 @@ function get_pages($args = '') {
 	update_post_cache( $pages );
 
 	if ( $child_of || $hierarchical )
-		$pages = & get_page_children($child_of, $pages);
+		$pages = get_page_children($child_of, $pages);
 
 	if ( !empty($exclude_tree) ) {
 		$exclude = (int) $exclude_tree;
diff --git a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
index a37e700a92..54175e007c 100644
--- a/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
+++ b/wp-includes/taxonomy.php
@@ -2988,9 +2988,9 @@ function get_term_link( $term, $taxonomy = '') {
 
 	if ( !is_object($term) ) {
 		if ( is_int($term) ) {
-			$term = &get_term($term, $taxonomy);
+			$term = get_term($term, $taxonomy);
 		} else {
-			$term = &get_term_by('slug', $term, $taxonomy);
+			$term = get_term_by('slug', $term, $taxonomy);
 		}
 	}